pwuser1 Posted December 17, 2017 Posted December 17, 2017 I would like your thoughts how the PHP language is progressing and which big companies are supporting it? For example does Microsoft or Apple keen on PHP? Also should I develop using PHP 7.x or stick with 5.x for now?
adrian Posted December 17, 2017 Posted December 17, 2017 http://blog.zend.com/2017/01/10/the-state-of-php-in-2017/ Yes definitely go for 7.x 5
Mike Rockett Posted December 17, 2017 Posted December 17, 2017 PHP 5.6 (and even 7.0) no longer receive active support (both versions receive only security support). You should use PHP 7.1 (matured) or 7.2 (recently released). I tend to wait a little while after major releases (anything can happen), so I’m currently sticking with 7.1 – probably until around March next year (birthday time, hehe). Refer: https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php 3
adrian Posted December 17, 2017 Posted December 17, 2017 Agreed - I am running 7.1 on live and 7.2 on dev
Kiwi Chris Posted December 17, 2017 Posted December 17, 2017 6 hours ago, adrian said: http://blog.zend.com/2017/01/10/the-state-of-php-in-2017/ Yes definitely go for 7.x I watched that video posted in another thread, and afterwards made sure that all my sites were running on PHP 7.1 It seems to have made a significant improvement to performance. 1
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