PHP 7.x - Past, Present Feature

We talked about some interesting things that came to php since the release of php 7. Covered the new features in php 7.1 in more detail and took a look at what is known already for php 7.2.

PHP Varna User Group, March 2017

1. PHP 7.X - PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Boyan Yordanov
2. ABOUT ME Developer at Shtrak Community fanboy Wannabe speaker and writer Helping make this happen
3. WHERE TO FIND ME? @specter_bg boyanyordanov boyanyordanov
4. PHP 7 TIMELINE The Past: PHP 5.6 -> PHP 7.0 The Present: PHP 7.0 -> PHP 7.1 The Future: PHP Next (7.2)
5. THE PAST
6. DEATH OF PHP 5 VERSION SUPPORT
7. 5.6 IS PRACTICALLY ON LIFE SUPPORT AND PROJECTS ARE DROPPING IT The force is weak with those who think that “*” is a version constraint. twitter.com/tobySen/status… 7:27 PM ­ 5 Feb 2017 · Oberding, Deutschland 21 43 Sebastian Bergmann @s_bergmann Follow Laravel 5.5 in July 2017 will require PHP 7+ 4:29 PM ­ 16 Dec 2016 419 810 Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell Follow #Symfony 4 (to released in November 2017) will drop #PHP 5 support... So, #Twig 2 stable should probably supports PHP 7 only, right? 2:54 PM ­ 16 Dec 2016 264 383 Fabien Potencier @fabpot Follow For the future 2.6 release I will drop support for PHP < 7.0 to massively simplify code. Should I keep support for PHP 5? 1:22 PM ­ 13 Dec 2016 · City of London, London 39 12 Xdebug @xdebug Follow
9. THE PRESENT
10. PHP 7 Worldwide celebration
11. FEATURES
12. Speed and Memory consumption Abstract Syntax Trees (AST)
13. Anonymous classes Cheap stubs $stub = new class implements SomeInterface{ public function methodStub() {} }; $subject = new ClassIamTesting($stub);
14. Returning objects function objFromArray() { return (object) [ 'prop' => 'value'; ]; } // ... function objFromAnnonymous() { retrurn new class { public $prop = 'value'; }; }
15. Return types Scalar type hints Throwable and Error and more declare(strict_types=1)
16. MORE INFO Black re.io - optimizations added in PHP 7 How Badoo saved one million dollars switching to PHP7
17. PHP 7.1 New stuff
18. NULLABLE TYPES Previously function dummy(int $a) : int { return $a; } dummy(null); // TypeError
19. NULLABLE TYPES Accepts null, but the argument is optional function dummy(int $a = null) : int { return $a ?? 0; } dummy(null); // returns 0 dummy(); // still returns 0
20. NULLABLE TYPES Now - allow null, but require int function dummy(?int $a) : ?int { return $a; } dummy(null); // returns null
21. NULLABLE TYPES A more real use case function sum(?int $a, ?int $b) : int { $a = $a ?? 0; $b = $b ?? 0; return $a + $b; } ... // web request / console arguments $a = getFromInput('a'); $b= getFromInput('b'); $sum = sum($a, $b);
22. VOID RETURN TYPE function noResult() : void { // Do stuff }
23. VOID RETURN TYPE function noResult() : void { return 1; // Fatal error }
24. VOID RETURN TYPE But you can still `return` to break execution function noResult() : void { // Do stuff if($someContition) { return; } // Do more stuff }
25. ITERABLE PSEUDO-TYPE function iterateStruct(iterable $array) { foreach($array as $item) { // Do stuff with $item } }
26. ITERABLE PSEUDO-TYPE Same result with any construct you can iterate over $array = ['item 1', 'item 2', 'item 3']; $collection = new class implements Iterator { ... }; function gen() { yield 'item 1'; yield 'item 2'; yield 'item 3'; } iterateStruct($array); iterateStruct($collection); iterateStruct(gen());
27. LIST() AND ARRAY DESTRUCTURING CHANGES Use keys with list() Short syntax list('foo' => $foo, 'baz' =>$baz) = ['foo' => 1, 'bar' => 2]; [$foo, $bar] = [1, 2, 3]; ['foo' => $foo] = ['foo' => 1, 'bar' => 2];
28. CLASS CONSTANT VISIBILITY Declare private, protected and public constants class SpecialConfig { private const MY_VALUE = 'value'; public function doStuff() { echo self::MY_VALUE; } } $special = new SpecialConfig(); $special­>doStuff(); // prints 'value' echo SpecialConfig::MY_VALUE; // throws error
29. CATCHING MULTIPLE EXCEPTIONS try { // Do stuff and throw exception } catch (OneException | TwoException $e) { // add some common handling code }
30. CATCHING MULTIPLE EXCEPTIONS Without the new thingy try { // Do stuff and throw exception } catch (OneException $e) { // do stuff with $e } catch (TwoException $e) { // copy­paste the same code from above }
31. CLOSURE::FROMCALLABLE() Create closures from callable pseudo-type // Without the new method array_map(function($item) {}, $arr); array_map('myCallback', $arr); // With the new syntax array_map(Closure::fromCallable('myCallback'), $arr); // Throws Error array_map(Closure::fromCallable('myCallback_wrong_name'), $arr);
32. CLOSURE::FROMCALLABLE() You can use class methods too $arr = ['item 1', 'item 2', 'item 3']; class MyClass { public function methodCallback($item) { echo $item; } } $myCallback = Closure::fromCallable([new MyClass, 'methodCallback' echo get_class($myCallback); // Prints Closure array_map($myCallback, $arr);
33. ARGUMENTCOUNTERROR NEGATIVE STRING OFFSETS function countsOnArguments($arg) {} countsOnArguments(); // throws ArgumentCountError $phpVarna = 'PHP Varna is cool.' echo $phpVarna[­5]; // prints "c"
34. THE FUTURE
35. PHP NEXT CURRENTLY PHP 7.2
36. WHAT DO WE KNOW? No release date yet - probably in December again A bunch of things are deprecated New password hashing algorithm in core Libsodium will be in core
37. LIBSODIUM From the RFC Libsodium is a modern cryptography library that offers authenticated encryption, high-speed elliptic curve cryptography, and much more. Unlike other cryptography standards (which are a potluck of cryptography primitives; i.e. WebCrypto), libsodium is comprised of carefully selected algorithms implemented by security experts to avoid side-channel vulnerabilities.
38. MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY YES - NAMESPACES - HELL NO! #PHP 7.2 will be the first programming language to accept modern cryptography into its standard library.news.php.net/php.internals/… 11:09 PM ­ 10 Feb 2017 451 494 Scott Arciszewski @CiPHPerCoder Follow But no namespaces. God help you if we find namespaces. twitter.com/ciphpercoder/s… 2:10 AM ­ 11 Feb 2017 25 SaraMG @SaraMG Follow
39. ARGON2 HASHING ALGORITHM Uses PASSWORD_ARGON2I in password_* functions Control the parameters password_hash('password', PASSWORD_ARGON2I); passowrd_hash('password', PASSWORD_ARGON2I, [ 'memory_cost' => PASSWORD_ARGON2_DEFAULT_MEMORY_COST, 'time_cost' => PASSWORD_ARGON2_DEFAULT_TIME_COST, 'threads' => PASSWORD_ARGON2_DEFAULT_THREADS ]);
40. PARAMETER TYPE WIDENING Skip type hints when overriding parent class methods class ArrayClass { public function foo(array $foo) { /* ... */ } } // This RFC proposes allowing the type // to be widened to be untyped aka any // type can be passed as the parameter. // Any type restrictions can be done // via user code in the method body. class EverythingClass extends ArrayClass { public function foo($foo) { /* ... */ } }
41. COUNTING OF NON-COUNTABLE OBJECTS Any scalar, null or object not implementing Countable will raise a Warning CONVERT NUMERIC KEYS IN OBJECT/ARRAY CASTS Numeric keys are no longer lost in the conversion $obj = (object)['1' => 1, '2' => 2, '3' => 3];
42. HOW TO STAY ON TOP? You don't have to
43. NAVIGATING THE INTERNALS NEWS 1. RFCs - the best source, sometimes abandoned or postponed a lot 2. The mailing list - old, chaotic, hard to follow 3. - internals mailing list in a nice UI 4. Twitter: and many more, because the community is awesome! 5. Blogs and 6. Externals.io @of cial_php @nikita_ppv @SaraMG PHP Weekly newsletter PRs on PHP-SRC repo on GitHub
44. QUESTIONS? THANK YOU!