What’s New Features in PHP 7.4
PHP 7.4 is a last version before PHP 8. It comes with lots of new features, syntax additions and fixes. It was be released on November 28, 2019. In this post you’ll get a list with everything that’s new and changed to help you prepare for the upgrade. Let’s start though with a few features, included in PHP 7.4:
- Typed Properties in classes
- Arrow Functions for cleaner one-liner functions
- Limited Return Type Covariance and Argument Type Contravariance as a shorthand
- Unpacking Inside Arrays
- Numeric Literal Separator
- Weak References
- Allow Exceptions from __toString()
- Opcache Preloading
- Several Deprecations
- Extensions Removed from the Core
- Spread operators introduce in array
- Underscores can be used to format numeric values in PHP 7.4