1157. PHP Current State and Performance in 2023
Updated on: 2023-06-14
Posted on: 2023-06-14
PHP is a modern and powerful language, but new language elements should be used with caution.
Please read this article to learn a few facts about PHP's current state and performance level according to the experience of David Tamas (that's me), a long-time experienced PHP developer.
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Please read this article to learn a few facts about PHP's current state and performance level according to the experience of David Tamas (that's me), a long-time experienced PHP developer.
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Updated on: 2024-03-13
Posted on: 2023-02-08
Many professionals worldwide fear for their professional future after the announcement about the possibilities of OpenAI products like ChatGPT.
Therefore it is understandable that they fear that artificial intelligence tools may replace them by doing the work they used to do for customers, and they will lose jobs.
Read this article to learn more about what is possible now to do with artificial intelligence, as well as some advice regarding what you should do regarding Artificial Intelligence to have a better future as a PHP developer.
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Therefore it is understandable that they fear that artificial intelligence tools may replace them by doing the work they used to do for customers, and they will lose jobs.
Read this article to learn more about what is possible now to do with artificial intelligence, as well as some advice regarding what you should do regarding Artificial Intelligence to have a better future as a PHP developer.
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Updated on: 2023-01-24
Posted on: 2023-01-24
The PHP 8.2 version introduced several improvements.
One of those improvements was executing prepared SQL queries and retrieving the query results using fewer lines of code when you use the MySQLi extension to access your MySQL database server.
Read this article to learn about this improvement of PHP 8.2 with an example of PHP code.
You can also learn some valuable criteria to decide if you should use MySQLi or PDO to access a database in your PHP projects.
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One of those improvements was executing prepared SQL queries and retrieving the query results using fewer lines of code when you use the MySQLi extension to access your MySQL database server.
Read this article to learn about this improvement of PHP 8.2 with an example of PHP code.
You can also learn some valuable criteria to decide if you should use MySQLi or PDO to access a database in your PHP projects.
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Updated on: 2023-01-20
Posted on: 2023-01-20
Many developers like to attend events where they can learn from other developers.
Since the pandemic, many in-presence events have been suspended to protect the health of people that want to participate.
Recently we talked with some developers that expressed an interest in participating in PHP online events.
Therefore we need to research your needs and desires, so we can plan to organize the PHP online events of your dreams.
Please read this short article, so you can learn more about how you can participate in a short research survey, and we can learn what the PHP online events of your dreams should have.
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Since the pandemic, many in-presence events have been suspended to protect the health of people that want to participate.
Recently we talked with some developers that expressed an interest in participating in PHP online events.
Therefore we need to research your needs and desires, so we can plan to organize the PHP online events of your dreams.
Please read this short article, so you can learn more about how you can participate in a short research survey, and we can learn what the PHP online events of your dreams should have.
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Updated on: 2023-11-02
Posted on: 2022-12-26
PHP has attained a degree of success that is unprecedented. Many years ago, PHP established itself as the leading programming language in the world.
The result of this level of adoption of PHP is that there are many ready-to-use solutions written in PHP for many purposes.
Read this short article to learn more about several suggested PHP and JavaScript applications that you may be missing and that are useful for business purposes, like CRM, email marketing, visual content editors, contact forms, and URL shorteners.
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The result of this level of adoption of PHP is that there are many ready-to-use solutions written in PHP for many purposes.
Read this short article to learn more about several suggested PHP and JavaScript applications that you may be missing and that are useful for business purposes, like CRM, email marketing, visual content editors, contact forms, and URL shorteners.
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Updated on: 2022-07-01
Posted on: 2022-07-01
Books are one of the most popular means of learning about any topic.
Suppose you are a developer willing to become better at any topic about PHP and related technologies. In that case, you certainly are interested to know about good books that others recommend to learn.
Read this short article to learn about some books recommended for beginner and advanced PHP programmers by Anastasiia Lastovetska, a technology writer at MLSDev.
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Suppose you are a developer willing to become better at any topic about PHP and related technologies. In that case, you certainly are interested to know about good books that others recommend to learn.
Read this short article to learn about some books recommended for beginner and advanced PHP programmers by Anastasiia Lastovetska, a technology writer at MLSDev.
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Updated on: 2019-06-12
Posted on: 2019-06-12
Many PHP developers use popular PHP frameworks to accelerate the development of their PHP projects.
Read this article to learn more about some of the most popular PHP frameworks and relevant features that they provide to benefit your PHP applications, so you can have useful criteria to evaluate which one is the best for you.
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Read this article to learn more about some of the most popular PHP frameworks and relevant features that they provide to benefit your PHP applications, so you can have useful criteria to evaluate which one is the best for you.
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Updated on: 2018-04-18
Posted on: 2018-03-07
The PHP Classes site has been through many changes in the last year. My personal life has also changed. My time is scarce. I need all PHP Classes site users help to keep it alive and working well.
Read the article below to learn what you can do help, like giving feedback about the current plans or suggestions to improve the current features.
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Read the article below to learn what you can do help, like giving feedback about the current plans or suggestions to improve the current features.
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Updated on: 2017-05-25
Posted on: 2017-04-25
PHP 7.2 development is reaching to the alpha stage in June, hopefully to have a final version released later this year. So for now the release managers are being chosen, so they can start preparing to work on each alpha, beta and release candidate version.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 82 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about other proposals for PHP cache keys for stream wrappers, serialized object validation with is_string, type variants, let range() return a generator, named parameters again, and removing the need for ; on the end of the line .
They also commented on an article about promoting Open Source projects using data mining and business intelligence to boost SEO factors, and using OpenID Connect protocol to implement single sign-on social login systems.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 82 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about other proposals for PHP cache keys for stream wrappers, serialized object validation with is_string, type variants, let range() return a generator, named parameters again, and removing the need for ; on the end of the line .
They also commented on an article about promoting Open Source projects using data mining and business intelligence to boost SEO factors, and using OpenID Connect protocol to implement single sign-on social login systems.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2016-10-12
Posted on: 2016-10-12
Never loop through a problem that should be solved by iteration.
Read this opinion article to understand why using iterators is a better idea than using loops in PHP.
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Read this opinion article to understand why using iterators is a better idea than using loops in PHP.
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