Is PHP becoming irrelevant? It still comprises the vast majority of web pages out there. Maybe that has been going down but with he amount of competing languages and systems out there, that is to be expected.
Either way, it’s an awesome language, happily been using it for decades now
I’m not the one you asked, but what I like isn’t really about PHP itself, but the fact that I can get dirt cheap hosting with PHP and MySQL. Every time I want to create a small “app” that makes some manual task easier it’s very useful to create something I can access from the internet.
Python is really useful for stuff like that too, but (in my experience) not as easy and cheap to use as an web app.
For example I go to dinner with some friends every month and we always forget who’s turn it is to choose and book a restaurant. So I just made this PHP page that shows the current and next 2 months with a name. So we always use that to see who’s turn it is.
Is PHP becoming irrelevant? It still comprises the vast majority of web pages out there. Maybe that has been going down but with he amount of competing languages and systems out there, that is to be expected.
Either way, it’s an awesome language, happily been using it for decades now
PHP is horrible, I hate it, and I will not elaborate. Good day, sir.
Well that is an excellent argument if I ever heard one…
I said good day sir!
Good day to you too, how have you been?
Not too bad. Just chillin’. How 'bout you?
Very fine! Nice cool day today.
Mind taking a moment to share why you like it? I am not very familiar with it.
I’m not the one you asked, but what I like isn’t really about PHP itself, but the fact that I can get dirt cheap hosting with PHP and MySQL. Every time I want to create a small “app” that makes some manual task easier it’s very useful to create something I can access from the internet.
Python is really useful for stuff like that too, but (in my experience) not as easy and cheap to use as an web app.
For example I go to dinner with some friends every month and we always forget who’s turn it is to choose and book a restaurant. So I just made this PHP page that shows the current and next 2 months with a name. So we always use that to see who’s turn it is.
What makes hosting with PHP cheaper than with python?
I don’t know, maybe it’s because PHP used to be the default web based language? I just buy hosting, I don’t sell it…
… And it’s one of the languages everybody craps on. Like, I’ve seen people compare JavaScript favourably to it.
Depends on how you’re judging relevance.
93% of webpages could be PHP because of Wordpress, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a lot of PHP developers.
Perhaps it was before Facebook came along
Wikimedia, WordPress, Drupal…
Nah, something like 93% of all websites on the planet were PHP when Facebook came around, thanks to WordPress.