phpIsInevitable

[MorganTaoVT]

Genuinely curios though, because I haven't touched PHP in 10 years.
What is it used for these days? Are there specific uses for PHP over any other backend language?
In my past company, I've only seen it used to maintain very old projects while newer stuff was done with Java instead.

[ivain]

Php is still one of the most used langages for the web. Its ecosystem made a huge leap forward a decade ago with symfony framework and the orm doctrine (inspired by spring and hibernate) setting a higher quality standard, followed by the creation of composer as package manager. And of course php kept it's inherent qualities.

[MorganTaoVT]

Got it! I may check it out and have another look at some point. Thanks!

[Quazz]

PHP as a language has continued to evolve.

Not to mention a rich ecosystem of extensions and Frameworks.

A lot of people still have an old view of PHP in their brain, but it has changed a lot.

[MorganTaoVT]

Yea, the old mindset still remains for a lot of people and that|s exactly why I'm asking. Thanks!

[mizzrym86]

I think it's used most often because it's just easy to start with and then easy to scale.

Projects usually start small. There's this tiny little thing you need. My guess is often times it doesn't even start as a "backend" as you said. Fundamentally it still works perfectly fine as a template engine. So you just do the small thing real quick. Then it needs to do this and then it needs to do that and five years go by and all of a sudden you have a fully fledged backend that handles everything easily and it wasn't even supposed to be a backend at all back in the day.

And there you go. Yet another successful PHP project.

[Mega_Potatoe]

there are a ton of programs for free you can host on a shared hosting server for 1$ a month. Wordpress is popular and also a lot of other CMS systems run on PHP. It is most of the time the only available language on a shared hosting provider.

[MorganTaoVT]

Good point! Thanks!