{"id":1458,"date":"2021-02-19T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2021-02-19T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:04:43","slug":"php-8-available-on-all-hostarmada-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-available-on-all-hostarmada-services\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP 8 available on all HostArmada services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PHP is still the most widely used server-side programming language for dynamic websites. In fact, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/w3techs.com\/technologies\/details\/pl-php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">W3Techs&#8217; report<\/a>, it empowers 79.1% of all websites with known server-side programming logic. To put that into a better perspective, the overwhelming majority of websites are currently up and running around the internet with PHP&#8217;s help. That is why we are very excited to announce that HostArmada has now made the newest and most requested PHP version available &#8211; PHP 8 on all our web hosting solutions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-right counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #565656;color:#565656\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #565656;color:#565656\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-available-on-all-hostarmada-services\/#Its_available_but_what_exactly_is_new\" >It&#8217;s available, but what exactly is new?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-available-on-all-hostarmada-services\/#What_does_having_PHP_8_available_mean_for_your_existing_applications\" >What does having PHP 8 available mean for your existing applications?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-available-on-all-hostarmada-services\/#New_major_features_breakdown\" >New major features breakdown<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-available-on-all-hostarmada-services\/#How_to_upgrade_to_PHP_8\" >How to upgrade to PHP 8?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Its_available_but_what_exactly_is_new\"><\/span>It&#8217;s available, but what exactly is new?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>PHP version 8.0 is a significant update over the 7.4 branch of the PHP programming language. There are many new features and optimizations, including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, and JIT. It introduced improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency. According to the PHP 8 roadmap, many long-expected, exciting features and enhancements have arrived with the release. <br><br>It adds much more clarity, transparency, efficiency to the development workflow and gives developers a chance to build better, faster, and safer websites and applications. Many built-in functions are now pickier about the input they accept, and PHP 8 itself is more stringent about how that information is passed to functions. Issues that previously resulted in notices directly result in warnings. And issues that resulted in warnings now result in errors. In other words, PHP 8 is not as lenient as previous versions. It will not try quite as hard to make code work no matter what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_does_having_PHP_8_available_mean_for_your_existing_applications\"><\/span>What does having PHP 8 available mean for your existing applications?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Should you upgrade your online projects immediately? Probably not. First of all, you should confirm that everything is working with PHP version 7.4. Because of the many new features and improvements, there&#8217;s a higher chance you&#8217;ll need to make some changes in your PHP code to get it fully adapted to the new PHP 8. If you&#8217;ve maintained your code up to date with the latest releases, though, the upgrade shouldn&#8217;t be too hard since most breaking changes that could occur were deprecated before in the 7.* versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_major_features_breakdown\"><\/span>New major features breakdown<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some of the most important major features PHP 8 introduces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Attributes<\/strong> &#8211; Also known as annotations in other languages, provide a mechanism to add metadata to your codebase.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.attributes.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attributes<\/a>&nbsp;can be used with classes, methods, functions, and properties. They\u2019re easier to work with than the&nbsp;docblock approach&nbsp;adopted by many PHP 7 projects.<\/li><li><strong>Constructor Property Promotion<\/strong> &#8211; PHP 8 adds support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.oop5.decon.php#language.oop5.decon.constructor.promotion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Constructor Property Promotion<\/a>, a shorthand syntax that lets you combine property definition, type-hinting, and population inline in the constructor\u2019s signature.<\/li><li><strong>JIT<\/strong> &#8211; The JIT \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.php.net\/rfc\/jit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just in time<\/a> \u2014 compiler promises significant performance improvements. It is implemented and introduced as an almost independent part of OPcache. <\/li><li><strong>Union Types<\/strong> &#8211;  PHP\u2019s type system continues to develop with PHP 8. It\u2019s now possible to hint types as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.types.declarations.php#language.types.declarations.union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cunion\u201d of two or more<\/a>&nbsp;types, where the type\u2019s value can derive from any of the types in the union.<\/li><li><strong>Match Expression<\/strong> &#8211; The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/control-structures.match.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">match expression<\/a> is presented as a compact, safer alternative to the commonly known switch. It does not require the use of case and break statements, supports combined conditions, and returns a value instead of entering a new code block.<\/li><li><strong>Nullsafe Operator<\/strong> &#8211; PHP 8 now supports inline null checking with automatic short-circuiting with the use of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.php.net\/rfc\/nullsafe_operator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nullsafe Operator<\/a>. You can build up a chain of checks that will abort, returning null when evaluating any element fails.<\/li><li><strong>Stricter Type System<\/strong> &#8211; A fair number of changes in this area enhance the strictness and consistency with which type checking is enforced.<\/li><li><strong>Named Arguments<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.php.net\/rfc\/named_params\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Named Arguments<\/a> allow you to pass in values to a function by specifying the value name so that you don&#8217;t have to consider their order. You can also skip optional parameters! <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_upgrade_to_PHP_8\"><\/span>How to upgrade to PHP 8?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The cPanel service offered with our Shared Hosting solutions has an easy-to-use feature known as <strong>&#8220;PHP selector&#8221;<\/strong>. That is what you can use to change your PHP version to PHP 8. Please bear in mind this update to the arrangement will affect all the websites hosted on the cPanel. For the convenience of our clients, we have published a HostArmada <a href=\"https:\/\/hostarmada.com\/tutorials\/getting-started\/cpanel\/how-to-manage-the-php-version-of-your-web-hosting-account-in-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PHP selector tutorial<\/a> where you can find a step-by-step guide on changing your PHP version, as well as additional information on how to use it effectively and manage your PHP extensions. <br><br>If you are a client of our Cloud SSD VPS or Dedicated CPU solutions, the PHP 8 is available on demand. The only thing you will need to do is to <a href=\"https:\/\/my.hostarmada.com\/submitticket.php\">submit a ticket<\/a> via your <a href=\"https:\/\/my.hostarmada.com\/clientarea.php\">Client Area<\/a> with HostArmada and request the installation and configuration of PHP 8. <br><br>If you still have questions or encounter issues with this process, despite our guide, there is nothing to worry about because our expert support team is here to help at any time as we are available 24\/7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHP is still the most widely used server-side programming language for dynamic websites. In fact, according to W3Techs&#8217; report, it empowers 79.1% of all websites with known server-side programming logic. To put that into a better perspective, the overwhelming majority of websites are currently up and running around the internet with PHP&#8217;s help. 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