title: PHP for Absolute Beginners
author:  Jason Lengstorf 
description: Jason Lengstorf is a 27-year-old turbogeek from Portland, OR. He started building websites in his late teens when his band couldn t afford to pay someone to do it, and he continued building websites after he realized his band wasn t actually very good. He s been a full-time freelance web developer since 2007, and expanded his business under the name Copter Labs, which is now a distributed freelance collective, keeping about 10 freelancers worldwide busy. He is also the author of PHP for Absolute Beginners and Pro PHP and jQuery.
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  About the Tutorial 
  PHP 7 is the most awaited and is a major feature release of PHP programming language. 
  PHP 7 was released on 3rd Dec 2015. 
  This tutorial will teach you the new features of PHP 7 and their usage in a simple and 
  intuitive way. 
  Audience 
  This tutorial has been prepared for PHP developers from a beginner’s point of view. After 
  completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in the 
  knowledge of PHP from where you can take yourself to next levels. 
  Prerequisites 
  We assume that you already know about the older versions of PHP and now you can start 
  learning the new features of PHP 7. 
  Execute PHP-7 Online 
  For most of the examples given in this tutorial, you will find an option Try it. Just use this 
  option to execute your PHP-7 programs at the spot and enjoy your learning. 
  Try the following example using Try it option available at the top right corner of the below 
  sample code box − 
  <html> 
     <head> 
      