With Pressable, all sites can now upgrade PHP versions to 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3 with just one click in the MyPressable Control Panel.
To change your PHP version:
- Login to MyPressable Control Panel
- Select a site
- Under the Overview tab, switch the PHP Version under Site Information:
To learn more about PHP limitations on Pressable, including values such as max_execution_time, memory_limit, and upload_max_filesize, you can read our PHP Info & Limitations article.
You can also learn more about our Service And Platform Considerations here.
We’ve outlined some information and the improvements between the three available PHP versions below:
PHP 8.1
Released: November 25th, 2021
PHP 8.1 is a major update of the PHP language that brings better performance, better syntax, and improved type safety. It also contains new features and optimization improvements.
New features include:
- Enumerations
- Readonly properties
- First-class callable syntax
- Initializer updates
- Fibers
- Intersection types
- Performance improvements
- New classes, interfaces, and functions
PHP 8.2
Released: December 8, 2022
PHP 8.2 is a major update of the PHP language that contains many new features as well as performance improvements and more.
New features include:
- Readonly classes
- Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) Types
- Allow
null,false, andtrueas stand-alone types - New “Random” extension
- Constants in traits
- Deprecate dynamic properties
- New Classes, Interfaces, and Functions
PHP 8.3
Released: November 23, 2023
PHP 8.3 is a major update of the PHP language that contains many new features as well as performance improvements and more.
New features include:
- Typed Class Constants
- Dynamic class constant and Enum member fetch support
json_validate()function- Addition of
mb_str_pad() - Addition of
#[\Override]attribute - Random extension additions