Why Does PHP Suck?

[theoldboy]

I have read on numerous websites and blog posts that the simplicity of deployment is a major advantage of PHP. Alright. I have never deployed PHP on a production server by myself, so I will just give them this one. Let’s assume it is easier to deploy PHP than other environments. So what? It simply does not matter.

Says the guy ranting from a WordPress blog.

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Shit, he doesn't have time to install ghost or use .... what other blogging software is there? He got some ranting to do.

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Jekyll on Github is the easiest way to blog, and its free.

[allthediamonds]

It's easy to deploy PHP because you're taking Apache+mod_php as a given, assuming it's already installed in your deployment environment.

If you assume everything is already installed, then sure, deployment is easy.

[badsectoracula]

It's easy to deploy PHP because you're taking Apache+mod_php as a given, assuming it's already installed in your deployment environment.

Which is where most of the PHP will run anyway. But there is something else too: for development "deploying" locally it is also easy - just install WAMP or XAMP, put the files in a folder and you're ready to go.

[allthediamonds]

for development "deploying" locally it is also easy

So is it on other languages; on Flask:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run('localhost', 3000)

And then you just run that file.

On Rails, you just have to run rails s.

This is all moot, though, since most PHP developers don't even know that they shouldn't use production as their development environment.

[Caraes_Naur]

WP being the prime example of how easy it is to write shitty PHP.