✔ Persistent secondary file-based cache for OPCache

; --enable-opcache-file
; php.ini
opcache.file_cache=/var/tmp

; php-cli.ini
opcache.enable_cli=1
opcache.file_cache=/var/tmp
opcache.file_cache_only=1

$ time composer >/dev/null
real	0m0.040s
user	0m0.032s
sys	0m0.004s

$ time composer >/dev/null
real	0m0.019s
user	0m0.016s
sys	0m0.000s

$ time php -d opcache.enable=0 /usr/local/bin/composer >/dev/null
real	0m0.033s
user	0m0.032s
sys	0m0.000s

/var/tmp
├── 7eeb6fe88104116c27c5650ddd83abf0
│   └── usr
│       └── local
│           └── bin
│               └── composer.bin
└── 7eeb6fe88104116c27c5650ddd83abf0phar:
    └── usr
        └── local
            └── bin
                └── composer
                    ├── bin
                    │   └── composer.bin
                    ├── src
                    │   ├── bootstrap.php.bin
                    │   └── Composer
                    │       ├── Command
                    │       │   ├── AboutCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── ArchiveCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── ClearCacheCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── Command.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── ConfigCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── CreateProjectCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── DependsCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── DiagnoseCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── DumpAutoloadCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── GlobalCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── Helper
                    │       │   │   └── DialogHelper.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── HomeCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── InitCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── InstallCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── LicensesCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── RemoveCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── RequireCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── RunScriptCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── SearchCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── SelfUpdateCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── ShowCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── StatusCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── UpdateCommand.php.bin
                    │       │   └── ValidateCommand.php.bin
                    │       ├── Composer.php.bin
                    │       ├── Console
                    │       │   └── Application.php.bin
                    │       ├── Factory.php.bin
                    │       ├── IO
                    │       │   ├── BaseIO.php.bin
                    │       │   ├── ConsoleIO.php.bin
                    │       │   └── IOInterface.php.bin
                    │       ├── Package
                    │       │   ├── BasePackage.php.bin
                    │       │   └── PackageInterface.php.bin
                    │       ├── Script
                    │       │   └── ScriptEvents.php.bin
                    │       └── Util
                    │           └── ErrorHandler.php.bin
                    └── vendor
                        ├── autoload.php.bin
                        ├── composer
                        │   ├── autoload_classmap.php.bin
                        │   ├── autoload_namespaces.php.bin
                        │   ├── autoload_psr4.php.bin
                        │   ├── autoload_real.php.bin
                        │   └── ClassLoader.php.bin
                        └── symfony
                            └── console
                                └── Symfony
                                    └── Component
                                        └── Console
                                            ├── Application.php.bin
                                            ├── Command
                                            │   ├── Command.php.bin
                                            │   ├── HelpCommand.php.bin
                                            │   └── ListCommand.php.bin
                                            ├── Descriptor
                                            │   ├── ApplicationDescription.php.bin
                                            │   ├── DescriptorInterface.php.bin
                                            │   ├── Descriptor.php.bin
                                            │   ├── JsonDescriptor.php.bin
                                            │   ├── MarkdownDescriptor.php.bin
                                            │   ├── TextDescriptor.php.bin
                                            │   └── XmlDescriptor.php.bin
                                            ├── Formatter
                                            │   ├── OutputFormatterInterface.php.bin
                                            │   ├── OutputFormatter.php.bin
                                            │   ├── OutputFormatterStyleInterface.php.bin
                                            │   ├── OutputFormatterStyle.php.bin
                                            │   └── OutputFormatterStyleStack.php.bin
                                            ├── Helper
                                            │   ├── DebugFormatterHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── DescriptorHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── DialogHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── FormatterHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── HelperInterface.php.bin
                                            │   ├── Helper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── HelperSet.php.bin
                                            │   ├── InputAwareHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── ProcessHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── ProgressHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── QuestionHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── TableHelper.php.bin
                                            │   ├── Table.php.bin
                                            │   └── TableStyle.php.bin
                                            ├── Input
                                            │   ├── ArgvInput.php.bin
                                            │   ├── ArrayInput.php.bin
                                            │   ├── InputArgument.php.bin
                                            │   ├── InputAwareInterface.php.bin
                                            │   ├── InputDefinition.php.bin
                                            │   ├── InputInterface.php.bin
                                            │   ├── InputOption.php.bin
                                            │   └── Input.php.bin
                                            └── Output
                                                ├── ConsoleOutputInterface.php.bin
                                                ├── ConsoleOutput.php.bin
                                                ├── NullOutput.php.bin
                                                ├── OutputInterface.php.bin
                                                ├── Output.php.bin
                                                └── StreamOutput.php.bin

32 directories, 87 files

✔ Abstract Syntax Tree!!

echo substr("abc", [1,2]);

% phan -a test.php
AST_STMT_LIST @ 1
    0: AST_STMT_LIST @ 2
        0: AST_ECHO @ 2
            0: AST_CALL @ 2
                0: AST_NAME @ 2
                    flags: NAME_NOT_FQ (1)
                    0: "substr"
                1: AST_ARG_LIST @ 2
                    0: "abc"
                    1: AST_ARRAY @ 2
                        0: AST_ARRAY_ELEM @ 2
                            flags: 0
                            0: 1
                            1: null
                        1: AST_ARRAY_ELEM @ 2
                            flags: 0
                            0: 2
                            1: null

% phan -a test.php
test.php:2 TypeError arg#2(start) is int[] but substr() takes int

✔ Return Types

function get_config(): array {
    return 42;
}
get_config();

// Catchable fatal error: Return value of get_config() must
//  be of the type array, integer returned in %s on line %d

✔ Coercive Scalar Types

function logmsg(string $msg, int $level, float $severity) {
    var_dump($msg);      // string(1) "1"
    var_dump($level);    // int(2)
    var_dump($severity); // float(3)
}
logmsg(1, "2.5", 3);

✔ Strict Scalar Types

declare(strict_types=1);

logmsg(1, "2.5", 3);

Fatal error: Argument 1 passed to logmsg() must be of the 
type string, integer given

✔ Anonymous Classes

return new class($controller) implements Page {
    public function __construct($controller) {
        /* ... */
    }
    /* ... */
};

class MyObject extends MyStuff {
    public function getInterface() {
        return new class implements MyInterface {
            /* ... */
        };
    }
}

✔ Null Coalesce Operator

$a = NULL;
$b = 1;
$c = 2;

echo $a ?? $b; // 1
echo $c ?? $b; // 2
echo $a ?? $b ?? $c; // 1
echo $a ?? $x ?? $c; // 2

✔ Spaceship Operator

|=|  Tie Fighter
k=k  Tie Interceptor
<==> Tie Bomber  
<=>  Tie Advanced X1 ✔

function cmp_php5($a, $b) {
    return ($a < $b) ? -1 : (($a >$b) ? 1 : 0);
}

function cmp_php7($a, $b) {
    return $a <=> $b;
}

✔ Exceptions on Fatals

function call_method($obj) {
    $obj->method();
}

call_method(null);
// Fatal error: Call to a member function method() on a non-object

try {
    call_method(null);
} catch (EngineException $e) {
    echo "Exception: {$e->getMessage()}\n";
}
// Exception: Call to a member function method() on a non-object

✔ Added Closure::call()

$f = function () {
    return $this->n;
};
class MyClass {
    private $n = 42;
}
$myC = new MyClass;
$c = $f->bindTo($myC, "MyClass");
$c();

$f = function () {
    return $this->n;
};
class MyClass {
    private $n = 42;
}
$myC = new MyClass;
$f->call($myC);

✔ Removal of many deprecated features
     (Your PHP4 code will break!)

- ext/ereg (use ext/pcre instead)
- preg_replace() eval modifier (use preg_replace_callback() instead)
- ext/mysql (use ext/mysqli or ext/pdo_mysql instead)
- Assignment of new by reference
- Scoped calls of non-static methods from incompatible $this context

- dl() in php-fpm
- set_magic_quotes_runtime() and magic_quotes_runtime()
- set_socket_blocking() (use stream_set_blocking() instead)
- mcrypt_generic_end() (use mcrypt_generic_deinit() instead)
- mcrypt_ecb, mcrypt_cbc, mcrypt_cfb and mcrypt_ofb 
  (use mcrypt_encrypt() and mcrypt_decrypt() instead)
- datefmt_set_timezone_id() and IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZoneID() 
  (use datefmt_set_timezone() or IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone() instead)

- xsl.security_prefs (use XsltProcessor::setSecurityPrefs() instead)
- iconv.input_encoding, iconv.output_encoding, iconv.internal_encoding,
  mbstring.http_input, mbstring.http_output and mbstring.internal_encoding
  (use php.input_encoding, php.internal_encoding and php.output_encoding instead)

- $is_dst parameter of the mktime() and gmmktime() functions
- # style comments in ini files (use ; style comments instead)
- String category names in setlocale() (use LC_* constants instead)
- Unsafe curl file uploads (use CurlFile instead)
- PDO::PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_NATIVE_PREPARED_STATEMENT driver option 
  (use PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES instead)
- CN_match and SNI_server_name stream context option (use peer_name instead)

✔ New reserved words:

• bool
• int
• float
• string
• null
• false
• true
• resource
• object
• mixed
• numeric

✔ 64-bit integer support on Windows

✔ Cleanup edge-case integer overflow/underflow

✔ Support for strings with length >= 2^31 bytes in 64 bit builds.

✔ Parse error on invalid numeric literals

$mask = 0855;  // Parse error: Invalid numeric literal

✔ Uniform variable syntax

// left-to-right
$this->$belongs_to['column']
// vs.
$this->{$belongs_to['column']}

// support missing combinations of operations
$foo()['bar']()
[$obj1, $obj2][0]->prop
getStr(){0}
 
// support nested ::
$foo['bar']::$baz
$foo::$bar::$baz
$foo->bar()::baz()
 
// support nested ()
foo()()
$foo->bar()()
Foo::bar()()
$foo()()
 
// support operations on arbitrary (...) expressions
(...)['foo']
(...)->foo
(...)->foo()
(...)::$foo
(...)::foo()
(...)()
 
// two more practical examples for the last point
(function() { ... })()
($obj->closure)()
 
// support all operations on dereferencable scalars
// (not very useful)
"string"->toLower()
[$obj, 'method']()
'Foo'::$bar

echo preg_replace('/:-:(.*?):-:/e', '$this->pres->\\1', $text);

echo preg_replace_callback(
    '/:-:(.*?):-:/', 
    function($matches) {
      return $this->pres->$matches[1]; // Oops!
    },
    $text);

% phan -b display.php
Files scanned: 1
Time:		0.13s
Classes:	8
Methods:	55
Functions:	5
Closures:	5
Traits:		0
Conditionals:	307
Issues found:	1

display.php:416 CompatError expression may not be PHP 7 compatible

echo preg_replace_callback(
    '/:-:(.*?):-:/', 
    function($matches) {
      return $this->pres->{$matches[1]}; // Ok
    },
    $text);

✔ Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax

echo "\u{202E}Right-to-left text";

echo "\u{1F602}";

‮Right-to-left text😂		

✔ ICU IntlChar class added to intl extension

GA release scheduled for October 2015

• Much more cpu cache friendly
• New memory allocator similar to jemalloc
• Faster hashtable iteration API
• Array duplication optimization
• PCRE JIT enabled by default
• Fast ZPP (ZendParseParameters) implementation
• Faster stack-allocated zvals (instead of heap)
• Optimized VM calling
• Global register variables with gcc 4.8+
• plus hundreds of micro-optimizations

JIT?

All versions of PHP compiled locally using gcc-4.9.2 -O2

configure flags

./configure --disable-debug       --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 \
            --enable-zend-signals --with-gd \
            --without-pear        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
            --with-png-dir=/usr   --with-vpx-dir=/usr \
            --with-t1lib=/usr     --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
            --enable-exif         --enable-gd-native-ttf \
            --with-zlib           --with-mysql=/usr \
            --with-gmp            --with-zlib-dir=/usr \
            --with-gettext        --with-kerberos \
            --with-imap-ssl       --with-mcrypt=/usr/local \
            --with-iconv          --enable-sockets \
            --with-openssl        --with-pspell \
            --with-pdo-sqlite     --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
            --enable-soap         --enable-xmlreader \
            --enable-phar=shared  --with-xsl \
            --enable-ftp          --enable-cgi \
            --with-curl=/usr      --with-tidy \
            --with-xmlrpc         --enable-mbstring \
            --enable-sysvsem      --enable-sysvshm \
            --enable-shmop        --with-readline \
            --enable-pcntl        --enable-fpm \
            --enable-intl         --enable-zip \
            --with-imap           --with-mysqli=mysqlnd \
            --enable-calendar     --prefix=/usr/local \
            --with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
            --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php7/conf.d \
            --with-config-file-path=/etc/php7

php.ini

[PHP]
zend.multibyte=On
date.timezone="America/Los_Angeles"
display_startup_errors=On
zend.enable_gc=Off
include_path="/usr/local/lib/php"
default_charset="UTF-8"
error_reporting=-1

variables_order=GPCS
sendmail_path=""

max_execution_time=60
memory_limit=512M
post_max_size=1024M
cgi.force_redirect=0
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

magic_quotes=0
magic_quotes_gpc=0
user_ini.filename=
realpath_cache_size=2M
cgi.check_shebang_line=0

max_input_vars=1000
max_file_uploads=50

zend_extension=opcache.so
opcache.enable=1
opcache.memory_consumption=256
opcache.interned_strings_buffer=8
opcache.max_accelerated_files=10000
opcache.revalidate_freq=60
opcache.fast_shutdown=1
opcache.enable_cli=1

php-fpm.d/www.conf

[www]
user = www-data
group = www-data
listen = /var/run/php-fpm.sock
listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data
listen.mode = 0660

pm = static
pm.max_children = 10
pm.status_path = /status
ping.path = /ping
ping.response = pong

nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
}

http {
        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 65;
        types_hash_max_size 2048;

        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

        gzip on;
        gzip_disable "msie6";

        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

php.conf

location ~ \.php {
  include                  fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_keep_conn        on;
  fastcgi_index            index.php;
  fastcgi_split_path_info  ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
  fastcgi_param PATH_INFO  $fastcgi_path_info;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
  fastcgi_pass             unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
}

hhvm.conf

location ~ \.php$ {
  include           fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_keep_conn on;
  fastcgi_pass      unix:/var/run/hhvm/server.sock;
  fastcgi_index     index.php;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

sites-enabled/wordpress

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name wordpress;
    root /var/www/wordpress;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/wordpress-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/wordpress-error.log;

    location / {
        index     index.html index.htm index.php;
        autoindex on;
    }

    location ~ /\.  { return 403; }

    include backend.conf;
}

HipHop VM 3.7.0 (rel) from http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu

server.ini

pid = /var/run/hhvm/pid
hhvm.server.file_socket = /var/run/hhvm/server.sock
hhvm.server.type = fastcgi
hhvm.server.default_document = index.php
hhvm.log.use_log_file = true
hhvm.log.file = /var/log/hhvm/error.log
hhvm.repo.central.path = /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.hhbc

php.ini

session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = /var/lib/php5
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440

hhvm.log.level = Warning
hhvm.log.always_log_unhandled_exceptions = true
hhvm.log.runtime_error_reporting_level = 8191
hhvm.mysql.typed_results = false

GCC Feedback-Directed Optimization (FDO)

$ make clean
$ make -j8 prof-gen
...
$ sapi/cgi/php-cgi -T 1000 /var/www/wordpress/index.php > /dev/null
$ make prof-clean
$ make -j8 prof-use

Had to fix one line of code in the Avalon database library:

diff --git a/database/model.php b/database/model.php
index 6c5f7da..c93e726 100644
--- a/database/model.php
+++ b/database/model.php
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ public function __get($var) {
           $belongs_to['column'] = $var . '_id';
       }
       $model = $belongs_to['model'];
-      return $this->$var = $model::find($belongs_to['foreign_key'], $this->$belongs_to['column']);
+      return $this->$var = $model::find($belongs_to['foreign_key'], $this->{$belongs_to['column']});
   } else {
       $val = $this->$var;

It is really easy!

Install Vagrant and Virtualbox

Then:

$ git clone https://github.com/rlerdorf/php7dev.git

$ cd php7dev

$ vagrant up
... (takes a bit - it is downloading 1.5G)

$ vagrant ssh

It will NAT, DHCP and also has a fixed address of 192.168.7.7

http://192.168.7.7/ will show you the PHP 7 phpinfo() page

Now you have a working Rasmus-approved dev box on your network

Switching PHP versions is trivial

vagrant@php7dev:~$ newphp 56
Activating PHP 5.6.6-dev and restarting php-fpm

vagrant@php7dev:~$ newphp 7 debug
Activating PHP 7.0.0-dev and restarting php-fpm

20 pre-compiled versions

/usr/local/php53            /usr/local/php54-zts        /usr/local/php56-debug-zts
/usr/local/php53-debug      /usr/local/php55            /usr/local/php56-zts
/usr/local/php53-debug-zts  /usr/local/php55-debug      /usr/local/php70
/usr/local/php53-zts        /usr/local/php55-debug-zts  /usr/local/php70-debug
/usr/local/php54            /usr/local/php55-zts        /usr/local/php70-debug-zts
/usr/local/php54-debug      /usr/local/php56            /usr/local/php70-zts
/usr/local/php54-debug-zts  /usr/local/php56-debug

Build any version

$ makephp 7
Build log in /tmp/build.log
Building PHP 7.0
configuring...
compiling...
installing...
done
Building PHP 7.0-debug
configuring...
compiling...
installing...
done

or manually

$ cd php-src
$ git checkout PHP-5.6
$ git pull -r
$ make distclean
$ ./buildconf -f
$ ./cn56
$ make
$ sudo make install

Report Bugs

Useful bug reports, please!