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PHP is a great language for building web applications.It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is alsoused for general-purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latestversion, providing major backward-compatibility breaks andfocusing on high performance and speed.This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve yourproductivity and coding skills. The concepts covered willallow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performancestandards of your applications. We will introduce you tothe new features in PHP 7 and then will run through theconcepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) inPHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improveyour PHP 7 applications' performance and databaseperformance. Through this book, you will be able to improvethe performance of your programs using the variousbenchmarking tools discussed.At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHPprogramming to help you improve the quality of your code. Spis treści: 1. Setting Up the Environment2. New Features in PHP 7 3. Improving PHP 7 Application Performance4. Improving Database Performance5. Debugging and Profiling6. Its time to Benchmark 7. Best Practices in PHP Programming 8. Appendix A: Tools to make the life easy9. Appendix B: MVC and Frameworks O autorze: Altaf Hussain is a fullstack web and mobile app developer with over 6 years ofexperience in PHP development. He received his degree in electrical engineering andspecialized in computer and communications from Pakistan. Altaf is an electricalengineer on paper and a software engineer by heart.He worked as a system programmer in his team, developing control software forsmall test robots using assembly languages and C. After this, Altaf got interestedin web technologies and never looked back. He has worked with numerous PHPframeworks, including Zend, Laravel, and Yii, and open source systems suchas Drupal, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Magento. Altaf designed and built twoproprietary CMS systems with full support for multiple languages and models,permissions, and translations, as well as different kinds of multilingual contentmanagement. Now, he works in the fashion industry as the head of IT at shy7lo.com,where his role is to manage the development team on the premises and abroad, inorder to manage Magento and Laravel applications development and the deploymentlife cycle. Besides web apps, Altaf has worked on iOS and Android applications,including building APIs in Lumen. He is a big fan of service-oriented architecture(SOA) and successfully uses it in different applications.Altaf actively researches on website performance and has deployed the latesttechnologies, such as PHP 7, NGINX, Redis, Varnish, and others, in productionenvironments for high-speed and scalable applications. He is a Debian lover anduses it for all of his web application deployments.When not working, Altaf writes articles for programmingtunes.com andtechyocean.com. He has reviewed several books for Packt Publishing, includingLearning Phalcon PHP, Mastering jQuery Mobile, and PrestaShop ModuleDevelopment.