Pro PHP and jQuery, Second Edition is for intermediate level programmers interested in building web applications using jQuery and PHP. Updated for PHP version 7 and the latest version of jQuery, this book teaches some advanced PHP techniques and it shows you how to take your dynamic applications to the next level by adding a JavaScript layer using the jQuery framework and APIs, considered the most popular JavaScript libraries.Learn to utilize the new built-in PHP functions. Since the first edition, this book covers new PHP features like trait support, short array syntax support, updated registers, a built-in web server, several improvements to existing features, performance and reduced memory requirements, generators, blocks for exceptions handling, OpCache, scalar expressions, variadic functions, argument unpacking, a new exponentiation operator, extensions of the use statement for functions and constants, a new phpdbg debugger as a SAPI module, and other smaller improvements.Moreover, from PHP 7, you'll get uniform variable syntax, the AST-based compilation process, the added Closure::call(), bitwise shift consistency across platforms, the (null coalesce) operator, Unicode codepoint escape syntax, return type declarations, and new and easier extensions development with support for redis, MongoDB and much more. Along the way, learn how the latest jQuery is used for animation, validation and more JavaScript. After reading and using this book, you'll come away understanding a fully functional PHP using jQuery web application case study that you can reapply as a template for your own particular web application.