Should You Learn PHP? - Pros and Cons

Most web developers either love or hate PHP. In this video we will go over some of the advantages and disadvantages of learning PHP compared to other server side languages

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[blakeyeboah]

The best server side language is the one you like the most

[genjioto]

Learning PHP for work, and its 2020. So its still relevant.

[ocdtechtalk]

When viewing videos always keep in mind the publish date. PHP has come a long way since 2017.

Thanks for the video.

[adev_]

Looking forward to the tutorials. When I first started learning web-development (about 2yrs ago) the common story was PHP is dying, its an old technology...etc; unfortunately I chose to ignore PHP. However, recently when I started searching for jobs where I live (Chicago), I was amazed by the number of jobs that required PHP knowledge; especially the entry-level/junior positions. Anyway, I underestimated how widely used it is because I didn't know any better, Knowing this now, I have started to learn PHP. I Just recently found your channel and really enjoy your calm and to the point teaching style, Its easy to absorb and understand the material. Looking forward to these tutorials when there're released. Thanks.

[GmoneyMozart]

This channel is going to the top of the top! Keep killing it!

[KapnKregg]

It's 2021, I just took a job as a contractor and our biggest source of work is PHP. I'm currently learning Laravel and loving it so far.

[avizmaldesigns]

Here I was, asking myself if I should learn PHP, and what were the alternatives, so I search for "php" on Traversy Media's channel, and I get a video titled, "Should You Learn PHP?". Damn, I love this guy.

[Working]

6/18/2021, I've started to learn php for a job opportunity. I guess it's still relevant.

[darkness]

A lot of developers may disagree but I believe C#(ASP.NET Core) is also a great server side language.

"only for small projects". This week I interviewed for: a bank, a global media company, a major insurance company, a major fulfilment company, a huge streaming platform...all of them run their main systems in PHP (Laravel or Symfony). Is just absurd to think is only for small-medium projects. Is it perfect, not at all.

[ahmedabdulrazzaq]

I agree with you, don't learn PHP as your first language.
Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
learn Java and OOP.
PHP should be a easy to learn after.

[takeniteasyfriend]

Thanks Brad. Grateful for all your insight on this as a new programmer. I've recently purchased a Traversy course because you went so far to building a great free Bootstrap to Wordpress. Respect.

[TheeMelloMan]

December 2020 - Just started my PHP journey.

[josejacob]

Laravel best framework ever. It let you write beautiful and maintainable code

[armaandhanji]

Really looking forward to your PHP series. Can't wait!

[PacmanOfficial]

Looking forward to the PHP tutorial. Thanks, man.

[infinteuniverse]

*Good for getting [first] job. Enough said. I wasted 100+ hours learning how to build a node.js API. As much as I regret not learning PHP first, it's not all for nothing. Laravel seems to have a lot of similarities to express + mongoose.

[ZapOKill]

hello from the future: 2021 now
i worked 10 years with php, didn't touch it for 3 years now (2 small fixes of lagacy code), handed over all my projects, and i don't miss it.
i strongly recommend go for node, python, java, c# - depending on your usecase

[mahmoudtokura]

Really cool video.
Java was my first language, used it for Android & naturally picked C#. it wasn't easy to learn but it has made it easy for me to learn other languages much quicker.
I've drop Java for python & other web development languages.

[paulbrown]

Here's a fun fact for 2020, Wordpress alone has 35% market share, of all websites, (455 million plus websites), so that's more than 1 third of all websites are powered by Wordpress, now let's spin that around to PHP, that means more than 1 third of the web is powered by PHP, and that's just the Wordpress Sites.. there is also sites powered by magento, opencart, other cms such as Drupal etc.. so is PHP worth learning in 2020? Hell Yeah!