way of the future
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I'm Jason CosperI work at WP Engine
I created Hipster IpsumI organize the Bakersfield WordPress MeetupI maintain the Force Strong Passwords plugin
@boogah
When I gave this talkfive months ago...
I was pushing HHVM
Hard
The numbers were compellingWordPress 4.1.x with 20 concurrent users.• Requests per second
• PHP 5.5: 256
• PHP 7: 627
• HHVM 3.7: 666
• Latency
• PHP 5.5: 78 milliseconds
• PHP 7: 32 milliseconds
• HHVM 3.7: 30 milliseconds
PHP adoption rates were depressing• PHP 5.3 — 41.4%
• Released: June 30, 2009
• End of Life: August 14, 2014
• PHP 5.4 — 30.1%
• Released: March 1, 2012
• End of Life: September 12, 2015
• PHP 5.5 — 9.3%
• Released: June 20, 2013
• End of Life: June 20, 2016
• PHP 5.6 — 1.5%
• Released: August 28, 2014
• End of Life: August 28, 2017
And hosts were announcing HHVM support
• WP Engine
• DreamHost
• Pagely
• SiteGround
• Kinsta
• Etc.
Legacy PHP bad
But I was being myopic
Don't get me wrongHHVM is still fast
But PHP is PHP
PHP 7 is PHPon steroids
Let's take a lookat some numbers
boogah.org/55vs7
PHP 5.5 vs. PHP 7• WordPress (4.3.1)
• PHP 7 was 2.6 times faster than PHP 5.5
• WordPress (4.3.1) + WooCommerce (2.4.8)
• PHP 7 was 1.4 times faster than PHP 5.5
• WordPress (4.3.1) + bbPress (2.5.8)
• PHP 7 was 6.6 times faster than PHP 5.5
• WordPress (4.3.1) + BuddyPress (2.3.4)
• PHP 7 was 4.7 times faster than PHP 5.5
All these numbers arepretty awesome
However, 67.9% of all PHP sitesare currently powered by versionsthat should be considered dead
They have ceased to be
Why should anyone give a !?
Nobody builds sites for the pastYou build them for the future
The futch
vagrantup.com
Vagrant creates & configuresvirtual development environments
This meansless yak shaving & more working
Varying Vagrant Vagrantsis the industry standardfor WordPress development
There is another
It does PHP 7 & HHVMAnd it was made for WordPress development
HGVgithub.com/wpengine/hgv
No matter where you host your site,you can use HGV to test your code
HGV• Built with members of the 10up team
• Work on your code under PHP 5.5, PHP 7 & HHVM at the same time
• Provision multiple sites using YML files
• Debugging & benchmarking tools
• Xdebug
• XHProf
• Siege
• query-monitor
• debug-objects
• debug-bar
Installing HGV is easyish
Prerequisites• Git
• VirtualBox or VMware
• Vagrant
• The Vagrant Ghost plugin
boogah.org/hgv-prereq
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"brew install gitbrew install caskroom/cask/brew-caskbrew cask install vagrantbrew cask install virtualboxvagrant plugin install vagrant-ghost
Installcd ~mkdir vagrantcd vagrantgit clone --recursive https://github.com/wpengine/hgv.gitcd hgvvagrant up
While HGV installs, make yourself a drinkIt should only take about 30 minutes
Get to work• Local file access
• Use your favorite text editor!
• [HGV_dir]/hgv_data/sites/[sitename]/
• [HGV_dir]/hgv_data/sites/[sitename]/wp-content/[plugins|themes]/
• SSH
• vagrant ssh
• phpMyAdmin
• admin.hgv.test/phpmyadmin/
Just import your siteand see what breaks
PHP 7 & WordPressboogah.org/php7wp
Switching your environment
is a piece of cake
Force your site to PHP 7vagrant sshsudo nano -w /etc/nginx/conf.d/www-[sitename].conf
Force your site to PHP 7Change this:
cache.php.example.test php;php.example.test php;
To this:
cache.php.example.test php7;php.example.test php7;
Save your changes!
Force your site to PHP 7service nginx restart
Questions?