PHP 7.3 is available on all shared hosting tariff plans

As before, after detailed testing and accurate optimization, we added another stable version of PHP, and this time it's PHP 7.3. Let's take a closer look what's blue elephant bring us.

Syntax

1. Mitigation of Heredoc and Nowdoc syntax.
2. Endpoint comma support in function and method calls.
3. Links to list()

Deprecated functions

1. The image2wbmp() function is deprecated.
2. The FILTER_FLAG_SCHEME_REQUIRED and FILTER_FLAG_HOST_REQUIRED flags have FILTER_FLAG_SCHEME_REQUIRED FILTER_FLAG_HOST_REQUIRED when using FILTER_VALIDATE_URL.
3. Register-independent constants are deprecated.

New features

1. Optional throwing exceptions for errors in json_encode and json_decode
2. Add is_countable() function
3. Adding array_key_first() and array_key_last() functions

How to choose PHP 7.3 in the hosting control panel

Let's see how you can choose PHP 7.3 in your hosting control panel. As always, you can switch PHP to a new version in literally a couple of clicks.

In the hosting control panel, go to the WWW section, then go to the WWW-domains subsection, and choose a domain where you planning to change PHP version to 7.3. Then press the Change button. After that you will see the window where you can choose PHP Version from the list.