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Table of Contents
About 1

Chapter 1: Getting started with php-7 2

Remarks 2

Examples 2

Installation or Setup 2

PHP-7, better and new. 2

Chapter 2: Anonymous class 4

Introduction 4

Examples 4

Simple in-place data wrapper 4

Usage 5

Chapter 3: Null Coalesce Operator 6

Introduction 6

Examples 6

General usage 6

Chapter 4: Spaceship operator 7

Introduction 7

Examples 7

Generic numerical example 7

Sorting a list of numbers 7

Simple Example 8

Credits 9
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Chapter 1: Getting started with php-7
Remarks
This section provides an overview of what php-7 is, and why a developer might want to use it.

It should also mention any large subjects within php-7, and link out to the related topics. Since the
Documentation for php-7 is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics.

Examples
Installation or Setup

Detailed instructions on getting php-7 set up or installed.

PHP-7, better and new.

After php 5.4. 5.5 and 5.6 this new mayor update came. The update comes with many new
programming features, techniques and ways of writing code. Installing PHP 7 could be done in
multiple ways.

To install it for a localhost development like WAMP or XAMPP either check for software updates
from their end and see if they come with the new PHP 7, If not you could always download a new
PHP version. Note that by now PHP 7.1.4 is already released in its early state. If you've
downloaded the new version don't forget to implement it the right way so that you're able to use it.
Doing this could be established by following the following tutorial for WAMP: tutorial and the
following turorial for XAMPP: tutorial

Update a servers PHP version

If you have your own server to host your websites on updating PHP could be established in
multiple different ways. From a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade command it could
work. But a better way is to download the new package with for linux
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties software-properties-common
sudo LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

When you've updated PHP you're able to use many new functions and features. Next to that there
are also speed improvements that came with this update.

Now you only need to check if PHP-7 had been installed by running the following command:

php -v

The output should be something like this.

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 PHP 7.1.2 (cli) (built: Feb 14 2017 21:38:43) ( ZTS MSVC14 (Visual C++ 2015) x86)
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies

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Chapter 2: Anonymous class
Introduction
Anonymous classes are useful when simple, one-off objects need to be created. They can be
used in place of a full class definition.

They can everything a normal class can: pass arguments through to their constructors, extend
other classes, implement interfaces, use traits.

Anonymous classes are assigned a name by the engine, This name has to be regarded an
implementation detail, which should not be relied upon.

Examples
Simple in-place data wrapper

interface IArrayWrapper {
public function getProperties(): array;
public function has(string $name): bool;
public function __toString();
// ...
};

/**
* Lightweight in-place data wrapper.
* Demonstrates usage of anonymous class in conjunction with interface.
*
* Provides some basic functionality for managing array data in OO style.
* Can be used as a wrapper for API request/response data etc.
* Converts data to JSON with simple `(string)` cast.
*/
new class($data) implements IArrayWrapper
{
/** @var array */
private $data;

public function __construct(array $data)

{
$this->data = $data;
}

public function getProperties(): array

{
return is_array($this->data) ? array_keys($this->data) : [] ;
}

public function has(string $name): bool

{
return (bool)($this->data[$name] ?? false);
}

public function get(string $name)

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return $this->data[$name] ?? null;
}

public function __isset($name)

{
return $this->has($name);
}

public function __get($name)

{
return $this->get($name);
}

public function __toString()

{
return json_encode($this->data);
}
};

Usage
Assume our $data as follows and class is stored in $cls variable:

$data = ['a' => 'b', 'c' => 'd', 'e' => 5];

$cls->a; // b
$cls->b; // null
$cls->e; // 5
isset($cls->a); // true
isset($cls->b); // false
$cls->has('a'); // true
$cls->has('b'); // false
$cls->getProperties(); // Array([0] => a [1] => c [2] => e)
(string)$cls; // {"a":"b","c":"d","e":5}
$cls instanceof IArrayWrapper; // true

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Chapter 3: Null Coalesce Operator
Introduction
The null coalescing operator (??) has been added as syntactic sugar for the common case of
needing to use a ternary in conjunction with isset().

It returns its first operand if it exists and is not NULL; otherwise it returns its second operand.

Examples
General usage

// Fetches the value of $_GET['id'] and returns 0 if it does not exist.

$id = $_GET['id'] ?? 0;
// This is equivalent to:
$id = isset($_GET['id']) ? $_GET['id'] : 0;

// Coalescing can be chained: this will return the first defined value out of
// $_GET['id'], $_POST['id'], and 0.
$id = $_GET['id'] ?? $_POST['id'] ?? 0;

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Chapter 4: Spaceship operator
Introduction
The spaceship operator is used for comparing two expressions. For example, $a <=> $b returns -
1, 0 or 1 when $a is respectively less than, equal to, or greater than $b. Comparisons are
performed according to PHP's usual type comparison rules.

Examples
Generic numerical example

Generic example in a form of $a <=> $b matrix.

0 <=> 1; // -1 (left operand less than right, right is greater)

0 <=> 0; // 0 (operands are equal)
1 <=> 0; // 1 (left operand greater than right, left is greater)
1 <=> 1; // 0 (operands are equal)

╔═══════╦════╦════╗
║ $a/$b ║ 0 ║ 1 ║
╠═══════╬════╬════╣
║ 0 ║ 0 ║ -1 ║
║ 1 ║ 1 ║ 0 ║
╚═══════╩════╩════╝

$a - leftmost column, $b - topmost row

Sorting a list of numbers

$array = [1, 0, 5, 9, 3, 7, 6, 8, 4, 2];

usort($array, function (int $a, int $b): int {

return $a <=> $b;
});

print_r($array);

Array
(
[0] => 0
[1] => 1
[2] => 2
[3] => 3
[4] => 4
[5] => 5
[6] => 6
[7] => 7
[8] => 8

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)

Simple Example

$a = 5;
$b = 10;

$a <=> $a; // 0, because $a == $a

$a <=> $b; // -1, because $a < $b
$b <=> $a; // 1, because $b > $a

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Credits
S.
Chapters Contributors
No

Getting started with

1 Community, Deathstorm, E_p
php-7

2 Anonymous class Paul T. Rawkeen

Null Coalesce
3 Paul T. Rawkeen
Operator

4 Spaceship operator Paul T. Rawkeen, Yahya Uddin

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