PHP Stable Release Review

Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language. Server-Side Scripting is a technique which employs script on a web server further producing a customised response to a client’s request made to the website.

PHP is open source scripting language used globally. PHP being introduced in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf have upgraded many versions till now. Initially, PHP was used to track online visitors on the web. Now it has many advanced features. Let’s start with is latest stable release.

PHP Stable Release
On 8th June 2017 PHP 7.1.6 version was released. Every software has a life cycle with different stages ranging from its initial development to its eventual release. It includes updated versions to help improve software fix bugs. The stable release is all about security updates. Before that, all new features are tested and bugs are fixed so that previous limitations are overcome.

Basics about PHP
Earlier PHP was called Personal Homepage and now it’s called Hyper Text Preprocessor.
A PHP file can contain text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP codes. These all are languages.

• Talking about its extension, it is “.PHP”
• For the execution of PHP code, a web browser is necessary as all PHP codes are executed on a server.
• In PHP compilation is not required as it is an interpreted language.
• As mentioned above also, its a server side scripting language.
• Being faster than asp and jsp, it is considered more.

Features

• Void Function
  Now you can set voidas return type of a function.
• Nullable types
  just like C++ and Java, you can easily return null from a function.
• Symmetric array destructuring
  Now you have better alternative to list syntax, you can use array syntax to destructure array assignment. This can be used in a foreach statement for assignment.
• Class constant visiblity
  Now you can use access modifiers with a constant variable within the class to handle its visibility accross the project.
• Iterable pseudo type
  A new pseudo type has been introduced that is same as callable. It can be used in parameter and return type.
• Multi catch exception handling
  By the name suggest now you can catch more than one exceptions in a single catch.
• Support for keys in a list
  By using a list function you can now specify keys while creating a list.
• Support for negative string offsets
  You can use negavtive offsets for string manipulation and also, you can use simple varibale parsing syntax inside string.And many more.

Why to go for PHP web developer ?
PHP is reviewed good because with the introduction of PHP 7.1, PHP has stepped forward towards new transformation completing in full force with other languages. 82% odf websites use PHP as a server side scripting language.

• 82% of websites use PHP as a server side scripting language.
• MySql is also supported under PHP database.
• PHP is unbeatable at security.
• PHP also provides third party library support and framework.

 

Magento 2.1.6 Reviews

Magento 2.1.6 Stable release ( 11th April 2017)
Magento 2.1.6 is much better than 2.1.5 as it has been updated with 15 major enhancements. Let’s go through following reviews highlights in this release.

Enhanced performance of the category page
You can see the difference in

• Five times faster loading of configurable products from the database.
• Even price calculations are 3-5% faster in the latest version.
• 20% faster stock validation.

Excellent optimisation of image resizing

• Now you can generate images of all sizes from image resize option performed from the command line interface.
• Image resize option from the admin side is fixed.
• When the image is processed on the frontend the number of file system operations will decrease.
• Depending on your store size, caching of image metadata is up to 50% faster now.

Enhancement of layered navigation

• Due caching of attribute option layered navigation has become 3% fast.
• Indexing of operations is minimised after product import.

Other Functional fixes of Magento

Catalog

• I hope you are well aware of category_product_entity table. Here’s a good new that Magento no longer locks that table.This is going to serve best as the related number of timeouts occurring during indexing etc will be reduced.
• Now storefront will display images that Magento resizes during product save operation, rather than resizing the products on the storefront.

Configurable products

• Magento is now able to run the check of readiness for sale of configuring product has become faster now.
• Also, Magento no longer calculates the configurable product price on the category page.

Indexers

If you enable update on Schedule, Magento will run a selective partial re-indexing operation after import.

Import

Unhappy is with a disorganised manner of displaying images? now Magento displays imported product images in an organised manner. First, it will show the base image, then additional images in listed order of CVS file.

Miscellaneous

• Magento has improved its performance by reducing the number of queries to the database.
• Unnecessary file check operations have no longer being performed by Magento.
  Earlier, it use to take too long to to read the images for metadata loading but now Magento caches images metadata.

It is Reviewed that, Magento being so flexible, high at performance is loved by world’s biggest brands as today’s buying patterns are changing every second.

 

Angular JS Reviews

What is Angular JS?
Angular JS is a Java-Script-based open source front-end web application framework which is maintained by Google and many individuals and corporations to handle challenges encountered in developing it.

What does open source Front end mean?
Open source software is a computer software in which its source code is available but with a license to the users. In this a copyright holder providers rights to its users to change, study and distribute the software to others.

The stable release of Angular JS?
1.6.4 on 31st March 2017.

Why Angular JS?
You can use HTML for static documents, but for dynamic views in web-applications, you want to overcome those flatter looks. Angular JS will let you extend your HTML vocabulary for that application. For featured rich scalable and secure web apps, you can opt for Angular JS, as it is capable of catering complex business requirements.

Why not other alternatives?
This is mainly because it is designed for dynamic views, not for static views. For that, you have to first choose between dynamic or static.

Angular JS extensibility?
Angular JS is a framework most suited for application development. And it is fully extensible and works excellent with others. With Angular JS every feature can be modified or replaced to fit your workflow and features needs.

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