Whats new in PHP 7.3 ?

The PHP team announced the release of the first PHP 7.3 version RC5 with added following features, syntax updates and deprecations.

Syntax

  • Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc syntax
  • Allow a Trailing Comma in Function Calls
  • list() reference assignment

New features

  • Option to make json_encode and json_decode throw exceptions on errors
  • Introduced is_countable() function
  • Introduced array_key_first() and array_key_last() functions

Deprecations

  • Deprecated image2wbmp() function
  • Deprecated FILTER_FLAG_SCHEME_REQUIRED and FILTER_FLAG_HOST_REQUIRED flags used with FILTER_VALIDATE_URL
  • Deprecated case-insensitive constants

 

The next release would be RC6, planned for November 22nd 2018.

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