Is PHP the Secret King of Code?

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[niggalascage]

php (since v3) has been making me money for 2 decades now. it is not my favorite language but I even bought a house from it

[Neithan]

So much feels *sigh*
I'm a teacher in a top University in our Country.
I proposed a new subject around PHP but was rejected instantly because "PHP is now obsolete"
Created a small web development company with my wife instead last January and now making some decent MRR.
Most projects that pay require the use of PHP.
When clients need a "new feature" that is "aligned with their business process" we saw that it just means making a PHP script that can communicate with whatever "framework/library" they have and they're outsourcing the task to us because none of their devs know how to code exactly (these were the young ones who grew up thinking that "coding" is just importing plugins and libraries they can't extend)

Lessons:
(1) Universities are designed to chase the hippest and newest tech, even if they are useless (non-solutions to non-problems). This is good for convincing parents (if they see the university is offering something they can also see in the news or also hear as a buzzword, then they feel the Uni is on top of their game), but won't give you any spine/foundation. Look for timeless tech (like PHP) and learn how it works and build something that's actually useful to people
(2) Don't tire of the basics. An array will always be and array. A variable will always be a variable. Loops will always be loops. Find the vanilla version of the tech you're interested in and just commit to knowing everything about it.
(3) If you must pick a tech, pick one that's in for the long haul. You don't want the fastest (If I'm in for the long haul I can simply catch up in speed in a long enough time frame), You don't want the one with most features (again, long enough timeline I can develop as much features as competitor X). All our high-ticket clients have a question for us in discovery meetings that the low-ticket clients don't ask, and that is "how long are you gonna stay in this business/game?". We say "as long as we live". The right clients think in decades as do the right software. The world belongs to and is created by those who operate in a slow and thoughtful pace.

To success and nothing less, for you who is reading this.🍻

[georgekyalo]

PHP was my first language and I started seeing this myth of it being dead but when you look at the market . PHP developers are in high demand. Great content as always

[MuhammadAdnan-snct]

You are absolutely right. PHP makes development so easy faster and better compare to other beckend languages. PHP with bootstrap and little bit of javascript can every magic where others do struggle.

[JoseGarcia-vrmx]

This is so true! It is thanks to PHP that I was able to get into the industry through backend development. Thank you, Stefan, for creating awareness in the community.

[besllu]

PHP + js is killer combo for web, I do not care what anyone says.

[radtn]

I love PHP man. Am a full stack PHP developper, i still use it since 2014 from scratch and i created my Own MVC and using it in projects of my clients. I also master javascript and i built projetcs with NextJS for fun, but for me PHP make the work so easy and fast.

[rotis]

Especially with Laravel is the best thing that happened, it gave life to PHP. Seeing what people said about PHP made me scared of it until I tried Laravel. Currently employed as a fullstack developer using Laravel and I love it.

[ddmozz]

PHP + vainilla JS + HTML/CSS - you don't need anything more than that.

[privacyvalued]

Two little known superpowers of PHP are: Arrays and CLI. First, the PHP array (hash table) implementation is unique among all programming and scripting languages: Integer and string keys in the same data structure while _maintaining order of inserted items_ when iterating over the array and yet having O(1) for all operations. Second, PHP CLI allows for _system development._ Sure, you can run PHP CLI from cron jobs but you can _also_ develop and deploy root level, always-on system services that start with the OS at boot. Throw in PHP extensions (e.g. via PECL or roll your own) and you can expose any C library or system call to PHP CLI userland.

[fullstacklarry]

What I like about PHP is that PHP devs tend to be go-getters and have an entrepreneurial mindset.

[seanharricharan]

I'm someone who uses PHP the most out of all other languages in my work and honestly, really appreciate it. PHP makes the simple thing in web development easy. I don't actively pursue learning about PHP in my free time because while PHP does the simple things easy it will get hard doing complex stuff and it isn't the pretties of languages but it definitely has it's place.

[mosesnandi]

The bottom line is that you can’t get easier, cheaper and faster (dev time) than PHP. And that’s why it rocks!

[kiambojyms]

PHP is great. Was the first server side language I started with and used it in many projects.

[luisacosta]

PHP is a cool language. In Venezuela, there are a few job opportunities in the tech industry, and many of them require PHP skills. By the way, working remotely in Venezuela is better, and PHP is the language of choice for remote programmers here.

[legendsofevil]

We use PHP to serve millions of users without any frameworks. In terms of shipping out features fast, PHP works well for our needs.

[SpawnSniper]

It’s true Stef, I was messing around with Python and tried some dynamic web forms, the circular imports drove me up a wall. I’m going to give PHP a shot now.

[thommccarthy]

I work in javascript land but I've been dying to jump in to laravel when I get some time. Great content as always.

[davidrowlands]

I love laravel, but being able to use JS on the front and backends were a gamechanger for me. I don't need to context switch between langauges so I become more efficient and less prone to mistakes. Mistakes which take hours to fix.

[ScorpioT]

Every strict-typed language is a gangsta till you have to parse/build nested array-object mess to connect another random API