Presentation Outline: PHP 7 Overview
While version 7 of PHP has been available since late 2015, many companies are just now looking at moving to the current version. This session will explore various features of version 7, as well as highlighting those features/functions from earlier versions of PHP that are deprecated in the latest version. Additionally, the session will take a look at migration strategies for moving from version 5 to version 7 of PHP and highlight how separate subsystems for version 7 and version 5 of the PHP engine on IBM i can be leveraged to perform a step-wise migration of your PHP application(s)
Speaker Bio: Clark Everetts is a Senior Professional Services Consultant for Zend products and services at Rogue Wave Software, Clark helps companies manage their PHP-based web applications by conducting software architecture and performance audits, teaching software development best practices, and showing them how to best use Zend Server and Zend Studio to build, test and profile applications, manage deployments, and find and fix those hard-to-trace bugs.