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Summary of PHP Features by versions
  • Support for traits has been added.
  • Short array syntax has been added, e.g. $a = [1, 2, 3, 4]; or $a = ['one' => 1, 'two' => 2, 'three' => 3, 'four' => 4];.
  • Function array dereferencing has been added, e.g. foo()[0].
  • Closures now support $this.
  • Class member access on instantiation has been added, e.g. (new Foo)->bar().
  • Class::{expr}() syntax is now supported.
  • Binary number format has been added, e.g. 0b001001101.
  • Improved parse error messages and improved incompatible arguments warnings.
  • The session extension can now track the upload progress of files.
  • Built-in development web server in CLI mode.
  • Support for namespaces has been added.
  • Support for Late Static Bindings has been added.
  • Support for jump labels (limited goto) has been added.
  • Support for native Closures (Lambda/Anonymous functions) has been added.
  • There are two new magic methods, __callStatic() and __invoke().
  • Nowdoc syntax is now supported, similar to Heredoc syntax, but with single quotes.
  • It is now possible to use Heredocs to initialize static variables and class properties/constants.
  • Heredocs may now be declared using double quotes, complementing the Nowdoc syntax.
  • Constants can now be declared outside a class using the const keyword.
  • The ternary operator now has a shorthand form: ?:.
  • The HTTP stream wrapper now considers all status codes from 200 to 399 to be successful.
  • Dynamic access to static methods is now possible
  • Exceptions can now be nested
  • A garbage collector for circular references has been added, and is enabled by default.
  • The mail() function now supports logging of sent email via the mail.log configuration directive. (Note: This only applies to email sent through this function.)
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