PHP is a general purpose scripting language that is used mainly for web development, it is pragmatic, easy to learn and use, it is constantly evolving with a wide community of developers who are in charge of enriching this popular programming language with new features, therefore it is constantly evolving.
NGINX is a web server with excellent performance and low memory footprint. NGINX can also be used as a reverse proxy (FastCGI, Apache, uWSGI), as a proxy for mail protocols (IMAP, POP3) and as a load balancer.
In this post we will install NGINX as a FastCGI proxy then the PHP requests will be redirected to a PHP-FPM server.
PHP 8.0 added new modern features such us: Union Types,Named arguments, Match expressions, Just In Time Compilation and others
Today we are going to install PHP 8.0 on NetBSD 9.1.
On November 26, 2020, the PHP development team released PHP 8.0, PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:
The PHP development team announced, on november 2019, the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.0. This release marks the fourth feature update to the PHP 7 series.
PHP 7.4.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features
The PHP 7.4 was released on November 2019, adding new features like: type properties, arrow functions, mumeric literal separator, weak references and more.
PHP-FPM is a FastCGI process manager useful for heavy-loaded sites.
The PHP 7.3 was released on December 2018, although were not much improvements as it were in the version 7 and version 7.1 it is worth to check the news added features.
P. For security reasons I need to disable some PHP functions. How to achieve it?
R. You must edit the php.ini file, find the disable_functions directive and specify the names of the functions separated by commas.
In this post we’re going to check 5 new features of PHP 7.2: New object type, Extension loading by name, Abstract method overriding, Sodium Cryptography library and Parameter type widening
On December 1, 2016 the PHP development team released the PHP 7.1 version, 12 news features was added, here we covered 8 of them: Nullable types, Void functions, Symmetric array destructuring, Class constant visibility, …
