{"id":3160,"date":"2019-05-20T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2025-04-15T12:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:25:02","slug":"how-php-7-3-can-enhance-the-performance-of-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-php-7-3-can-enhance-the-performance-of-your-website","title":{"rendered":"How PHP 7.3 Can Enhance the Performance of Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey 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: #999;color:#999\" 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: #999;color:#999\" 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.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-php-7-3-can-enhance-the-performance-of-your-website\/#Here_are_Some_of_the_Benefits_that_You_can_Avail\" title=\"Here are Some of the Benefits that You can Avail\">Here are Some of the Benefits that You can Avail<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-php-7-3-can-enhance-the-performance-of-your-website\/#Speed_Up_Your_Website\" title=\"Speed Up Your Website:\">Speed Up Your Website:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-php-7-3-can-enhance-the-performance-of-your-website\/#_Stay_Updated_with_Security\" title=\"\u00a0Stay Updated with Security:\">\u00a0Stay Updated with Security:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-php-7-3-can-enhance-the-performance-of-your-website\/#Why_should_You_Upgrade_to_PHP_73\" title=\"Why should You Upgrade to PHP 7.3?\">Why should You Upgrade to PHP 7.3?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The performance of your website depends on a number of factors and the version of your PHP that you are currently running may also be of great importance. Most business owners usually overlook this. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">PHP is the scripting language that is widely used to develop websites and since its first release, it has come up with lots of improvements on certain capabilities that include TLS constants and API extensibility. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Now that we have the PHP 7.3 released, you can start taking advantage of the latest version.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Here_are_Some_of_the_Benefits_that_You_can_Avail\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>Here are Some of the Benefits that You can Avail<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Speed_Up_Your_Website\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #008080;\"><strong>Speed Up Your Website: <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Websites nowadays have to be very fast to capture the attention of the younger generations and the average attention span has now come down to eight seconds from 12 seconds. They now expect the website to load quickly and in case it doesn\u2019t, they have other options to find what they want. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So, if you are looking to capture and communicate with the audiences online, then your slow loading site can be the cause of page abandonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 40px auto; border: 2px solid #f46f25; padding: 20px 25px; border-radius: 6px; background: 0;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 62%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Are You Looking for Custom PHP Development?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 36%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"padding: 10px 22px; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; cursor: pointer; color: #ffffff; background-color: #f46f25; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; display: block;\" href=\"\/custom-php-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call us today!<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With many options to improve the site speed, updating to the latest version of PHP is a great solution. People upgrading from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.3 can now observe a 10% increase in the site speed and this is of course a big achievement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Besides speed the latest version also has updated features like SQLite support, enhanced PHP garbage collection performance and also some other enhancements.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_Stay_Updated_with_Security\"><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #008080;\"><strong>Stay Updated with Security: <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Upgrading to PHP 7.3 is beneficial for overall security of your business website.\u00a0 Just like any other software, your web development platform needs updated to keep it secure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Though there are no major security vulnerabilities that have been a major concern regarding PHP 7.2. it is considered to be the best practice to run the latest and updated version so that the security patches are upgraded and there are no compatibility issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #008080;\"><strong>The Flexible Heredoc Syntaxes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Heredoc is a very polished method used to write strings that allow creation of multiple lines of text without using the new character line. It evaluates both the variables and also the characters like double quotes strings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is used to create multiple lines of text, snippets of HTML, for emails, SQL queries and etc. Though the feature has been implemented in previous versions, but it forced the web developers to pay lots of attention to the syntax and indentation. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/php-development\/\">PHP 7.3 development<\/a><\/span> has come up with some improvements and has made the implementation of the feature easier and accommodating to use.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_should_You_Upgrade_to_PHP_73\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>Why should You Upgrade to PHP 7.3?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The PHP team has done an amazing job of addressing the performance issues from one update to the next and with the release of PHP 7.3, the latest round of performance improvements has been done. PHP 7.3 offers about:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">10% improvement over the previous version<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">30% improvement over PHP 7.0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Up to 3 times improvements over PHP 5.6<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/php-upgradation-and-migration\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">updating to the latest PHP version<\/span><\/a> will help you get a massive performance boost to your website.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"\/blog\/a-guide-to-becoming-a-better-php-programmer-with-clean-php-codes\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A Guide to Becoming a Better PHP Programmer with Clean PHP Codes<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The performance of your website depends on a number of factors and the version of your PHP that you are currently running may also be of great importance. 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