The PHP 7 Story

Description

PHP 7 is literally right around the corner, and in fact should already be out by the time this session takes place! With the previous major release of PHP having happened more than a decade ago, this is a very exciting milestone in PHP's history that promises to bring both far-reaching performance boosts for real world workloads and a host of new features. In this session, Zeev will share the evolution of PHP's major versions, the behind-the-scenes story of how PHP 7 came to be and its key benefits and features.

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• Audio : anglais

Zeev Suraski is one of the principal authors of the PHP programming language. His involvement with PHP dates back to 1997 when he co-created the foundation for PHP 3 – the first version of PHP that resembles ‘modern’ PHP. Zeev later spearheaded the PHP 4 project – which made PHP the most popular development language in the world for Web apps, contributed to PHP 5, and is to blame for the sixth version of PHP being named PHP 7. Zeev co-founded Zend Technologies in 1999, serves as its CTO and leads the company’s R&D teams.