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How to Compile PHP 8.0 in Debian 10?

On November 26, 2020, the PHP development team released PHP 8.0, PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:

  • Union Types
  • Named arguments
  • Match expressions
  • Attributes
  • Constructor Property Promotion
  • Nullsafe Operator
  • Weak Maps
  • Just In Time Compilation
  • and more

How to compile PHP-7.2 on CentOS

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On November 30, 2017 the PHP development team released the PHP 7.2 version, this release added news features, here some of them:

  • New object type: Previously the object statement was used to convert one data type to another one e.g. an array to an sdtClass object and/or vice versa, PHP 7.2 introduces the object data type which can be used to specify the type of parameter and/or for the type of a function return.
  • Extension loading by name: Now it is not necessary to specify the file extension (.so for Unix, .dll for Windows) when loading an extension allowing greater portability in the php configuration file (php.ini).
  • Abstract method overriding: Now an abstract class that inherits from another abstract class can change/overwrite an abstract method of its parent class.