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PHP

A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
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What is PHP?

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
PHP is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
PHP is an open source tool with 37.1K GitHub stars and 7.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to PHP's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses PHP?

Companies
46034 companies reportedly use PHP in their tech stacks, including Facebook, Slack, and Delivery Hero.

Developers
88463 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PHP.

PHP Integrations

JavaScript, Laravel, Sentry, Datadog, and Symfony are some of the popular tools that integrate with PHP. Here's a list of all 322 tools that integrate with PHP.
Pros of PHP
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Large community
817
Open source
765
Easy deployment
487
Great frameworks
387
The best glue on the web
235
Continual improvements
185
Good old web
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Web foundation
135
Community packages
125
Tool support
35
Used by wordpress
34
Excellent documentation
29
Used by Facebook
23
Because of Symfony
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Dynamic Language
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Cheap hosting
16
Easy to learn
14
Awesome Language and easy to implement
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Very powerful web language
14
Fast development
13
Composer
12
Because of Laravel
12
Flexibility, syntax, extensibility
9
Easiest deployment
8
Readable Code
8
Fast
7
Most of the web uses it
7
Fastestest Time to Version 1.0 Deployments
7
Worst popularity quality ratio
7
Short development lead times
6
Faster then ever
5
Open source and large community
5
Simple, flexible yet Scalable
4
Open source and great framework
4
Large community, easy setup, easy deployment, framework
4
I have no choice :(
4
Has the best ecommerce(Magento,Prestashop,Opencart,etc)
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Is like one zip of air
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Easy to use and learn
4
Cheap to own
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Easy to learn, a big community, lot of frameworks
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Great developer experience
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Used by STOMT
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Hard not to use
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Safe the planet
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Fault tolerance
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Walk away
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Great flexibility. From fast prototyping to large apps
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Interpreted at the run time
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FFI
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Secure
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Bando
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It can get you a lamborghini
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Simplesaml
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Secure
Decisions about PHP

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose PHP in their tech stack.

Joshua Dean Küpper
CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · | 1 upvote · 73K views

As we use the Woltlab Suite Core, we are bound to PHP and use it with the as a FPM. Currently version 7.4 is running on all of our hosts and we use a lot of the recently added typing and nullability features to write more reliable code that can be easier analyzed through our tools.

We also use it for some WSC embedded cron-scheduling and internal web-interfaces, but tend to use a more modern Frontend-Backend architecture for all newly created projects as we enjoy the clear differentiation between View and Controller.

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Jaume Bosch
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PHP is a well-tested and huge community language which has been proven as a fast and reliable way of quick development. Here in Barcelona is one of the most popular languages, we celebrate some conferences like https://php.barcelona Also, with the addition of some framework like Symfony, you could add more reliability to the development process. Don't forget to upvote this review

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Jaume Bosch
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Symfony is probably the most popular PHP framework nowadays. We began with Symfony 2.6 and during 2019 we migrated to Symfony 4.2, also introducing #DDD and #hexagonal to our development process. Thanks to this improvements we could manage a quite big company with a small development team. If you agree, don't forget to upvote my review.

Thx

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Lidiexy Alonso
Senior Software Engineer at Palinode LLC · | 6 upvotes · 369.3K views
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As developer at Applied Health Analytics we decided to create a React Native App. In terms of #IDE I'm a good fan of PhpStorm cause we have a lot of PHP in the backend, but I've definitely gave a try to Visual Studio Code and now is my primary JavaScript #IDE. I was impress how fast VS Code has become the No.1 @JavaScript Editor in the community.

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Pedro Arnal Puente
CTO at La Cupula Music SL · | 2 upvotes · 196.8K views
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Our command and event buses uses stomp as protocol, over RabbitMQ in development, and Amazon MQ in production.

Currently bus communicates Ruby and PHP based clients.

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From a StackShare Community member: “A client is requiring me to use PHP for a custom lead management app for internal use. Should I use a framework like Laravel/Symfony or just stick with the basics?”

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PHP Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to PHP?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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