I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Yes. The last two agencies I worked for have exclusively used PHP for back-end tasks, and as middleware or data stores for React sites.
It's widely loved by the people who love it.
I've been a PHP developer now for about 6 years, with a sprinkling of JS, and I don't think it's a good language, but I do appreciate that it's getting better. Frameworks like Synfomy (which is really the tech behind most of these other frameworks you see) go a long way to making it more robust.
It's perfectly capable of keeping up or out-performing other languages for most needs and there are a zillion programmers out there who know it already.
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Yes. The last two agencies I worked for have exclusively used PHP for back-end tasks, and as middleware or data stores for React sites.
It's widely loved by the people who love it.
I've been a PHP developer now for about 6 years, with a sprinkling of JS, and I don't think it's a good language, but I do appreciate that it's getting better. Frameworks like Synfomy (which is really the tech behind most of these other frameworks you see) go a long way to making it more robust.
It's perfectly capable of keeping up or out-performing other languages for most needs and there are a zillion programmers out there who know it already.