{"id":10967,"date":"2021-05-11T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/?p=10967"},"modified":"2023-03-13T06:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T06:15:39","slug":"improvements-in-php-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/improvements-in-php-8\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPROVEMENTS IN PHP 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. FASTER CODE EXECUTION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHP 8 introduced Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler which promises speed improvements for complex tasks and algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. CLEANER, SHORTER CODE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the new elements like Null-Safe Operator provides safety method chaining to return a null value. Instead of several nested \u2018if statements\u2019, we can implement code in a single line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. NAMED ARGUMENTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHP 8 introduced named arguments through which we don\u2019t need to pass multiple null values as parameters in a method. We can just pass the required value as name-value combination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. SYNTAX IMPROVEMENTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHP 8 boosts syntactical improvements a lot like Union types, Class constructor property promotion, Attributes, Mixed pseudotype, Catch by types, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. NEW METHODS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">str_contains, str_starts_with and str_ends_with, preg_last_error_msg etc which will save valuable time of developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. SECURITY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHP 8 removes some previously used functions due to security reasons. Also, improved throwing error mechanism. It also throws some error which were a notice or warning In earlier versions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact Us &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcde Call &#8211; <a href=\"tel: +91 8100 665964\">+91 8100 665964 (INDIA)<\/a> |<a href=\"tel: +1 720 738 1011\"> +1 720 738 1011 (US)<\/a><br \/>\n\ud83d\udce7 Email &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:hello@minervainfotech.com\">hello@minervainfotech.com<\/a><br \/>\n\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udcbb Skype &#8211; minervainfotech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. FASTER CODE EXECUTION PHP 8 introduced Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler which promises speed improvements for complex tasks and algorithms. 2. CLEANER, SHORTER CODE Some of the new elements like Null-Safe Operator provides safety method chaining to return a null value. Instead of several nested \u2018if statements\u2019, we can implement code in a single line. 3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,20,21],"tags":[663,661,669,670,666,667,662,668,665,664],"class_list":["post-10967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-html","category-unique","category-wordpress","tag-php-8-changes","tag-php-8-features","tag-php-8-linux","tag-php-8-mac","tag-php-8-mysql","tag-php-8-online","tag-php-8-performance","tag-php-8-xampp","tag-php-8-xdebug","tag-php-version-8"],"modified_by":"Minerva","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13667,"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions\/13667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minervainfotech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}