PHP from 2014 to 2024

PHP has come a long way, let's highlight some of the most impactful features.

If you want to learn more about how PHP has evolved, check out my blog series about modern PHP:

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[is-sam]

PHP haters are people still stuck in 2010 knowledge and ideas

[DigitalLobstershow]

PHP was so easy that I started using it as an 11-year-old in 2004. Now, I am 31 and still use PHP. I love PHP.

[msnegurski]

Just wanted to say over the last year this channel became one of my favourites, density and usefulness of information is through the roof

[Rtzoor]

the thing i miss the most is array type annotations, have to add a doc block just for typed array parameter or return, but the PHP team did an awesome job improving the language, i really enjoy using it after migrating a big production system from 5.6 to 8.1

[PHP-Dinos]

Thanks for sharing. I’m sure ✔️ modern PHP is really cool. It worthy to upgrade as soon as possible and to use all syntax improvements

[myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

I've never used PHP. I think I love it just because so many people hate it. Same with COBOL. I don't know them, I don't use them, but often read about them and watch videos. Kind of why I subscribed. Perhaps, I might as well start writing some.

[rokaspaulikas]

PHP getting all the best features of C# I love it

[Mark_RunRyder]

PHP 8.4 hooray! Thanks for the vid :-)

[leroyjenkins]

Went from using PHP for 8 years to TypeScript 2 years ago. Came back a few days ago because I reused an API framework I built just before I switched to TypeScript. And I just realized how much I got used to easy type safety. Don’t know if I will stay around PHP tbh

[PabloPazosGutierrez]

One thing I would love in PHP is to have application-wide memory, to avoid creating everything during each request.

[SaiyanJin]

hmm is it really better though? the thing with the interface and the getter. I think it messes up the cohesion and the locality of the object

[Operaatoors]

I freaking love read only DTO classes, but, not yet figured out how to get around cases like having 20 properties and one of them should be updated from null to some calculated value on runtime… although - calculated properties then?

[StefanoV]

The only thing capping performance now is apache. But already a lot of ppl switched to nginx.
Yes there is swoole or franken but I don't like the "runner to be always up" like other languages in PHP... I mean, yeah that way I can have more control, but it forces me to have a dedicated server or a ssh access ... It would be nice something like apache but with swoole performance

[Vitalii-mr]

How can one find their 1st job as a PHP dev?

[kladdelic]

Nice video! I love your updates. Nearly hitting Stitcher daily.

[barneylaurance]

Isn't the final version of the code the one at 2022 / 1:38 with 8 lines, not just 5? I suppose it's 5 if you don't count punctuation-only lines.

[phpannotated]

What's your #1 feature of modern PHP?

[robertwilde]

PHP Dead? Ha, I think it's becoming imortall!

[darkwoodmovies]

Crazy to me that Facebook's Hack had all these features and many more years ago. I'm just mind blown that it's only recently that some of these no-brainer features got introduced. It took way too long for regular PHP to catch up to modern frameworks. Could have been fine, now it's dead.

[NedumEze]

Please Brent,
On the Property Hooks, please "teach" instead of "promoting". Please.