PHP is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It is modular, and object-oriented. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The language is designed to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. PHP 7.4 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as * Typed Properties * Arrow Functions * Limited Return Type Covariance and Argument Type Contravariance * Unpacking Inside Arrays * Numeric Literal Separator * Weak References * Allow Exceptions from __toString() * Opcache Preloading * Several Deprecations * Extensions Removed from the Core For source downloads of PHP 7.4 please visit our downloads page Windows binaries can be found on the PHP for Windows site. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog. NOTE: This version reached End of Life on November 28 2022. Updating to a more recent version is strongly recommended. Please see https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php for additional details.