pwuser1 Posted December 17, 2017 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 http://blog.zend.com/2017/01/10/the-state-of-php-in-2017/ Yes definitely go for 7.x 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rockett Posted December 17, 2017 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Agreed - I am running 7.1 on live and 7.2 on dev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Chris Posted December 17, 2017 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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