You're reading from PHP 8 Programming Tips, Tricks and Best Practices A practical guide to PHP 8 features, usage changes, and advanced programming techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071871

Length 528 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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PHP

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Author (1):

Doug Bierer

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: PHP 8 Tips

2. Chapter 1: Introducing New PHP 8 OOP Features FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Learning about PHP 8's Functional Additions

4. Chapter 3: Taking Advantage of Error-Handling Enhancements

5. Chapter 4: Making Direct C-Language Calls

6. Section 2: PHP 8 Tricks

7. Chapter 5: Discovering Potential OOP Backward-Compatibility Breaks

8. Chapter 6: Understanding PHP 8 Functional Differences

9. Chapter 7: Avoiding Traps When Using PHP 8 Extensions

10. Chapter 8: Learning about PHP 8's Deprecated or Removed Functionality

11. Section 3: PHP 8 Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Mastering PHP 8 Best Practices

13. Chapter 10: Improving Performance

14. Chapter 11: Migrating Existing PHP Apps to PHP 8

15. Chapter 12: Creating PHP 8 Applications Using Asynchronous Programming

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Chapter 7: Avoiding Traps When Using PHP 8 Extensions

One of the main strengths of the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) language is its extensions. Changes to the PHP language introduced in PHP 8 also require extension development teams to update their extensions at the same time. In this chapter, you will learn which major changes to extensions have been made and how to avoid traps when updating an existing application to PHP 8.

Once you have finished reviewing the sample code and topics presented in this chapter, you will be able to prepare any existing PHP code for migration to PHP 8. In addition to learning about the changes to the various extensions, you will also gain deep insight into their operation. This ability will allow you to make informed decisions when using extensions in PHP 8.

Topics covered in this chapter include the following: