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This "in a single file" property is probably the most unique, and maybe the most enviable feature of PHP. I don't think you can do it in any other language, except maybe by jumping through hoops (e.g. jbang and uv come close).
Does anyone have an experience and can compare Adminer to XAMPP admin panel and modern stack (Supabase and similar)? Or PHP vs React+Node or Python+Django?
phpMyAdmin was (is?) such a great tool and really got me into SQL/MySQL over a decade ago. Not to mention the whole PHP stack was so fun to use and let you iterate quickly and just build stuff with an immediate feedback loop - just reload the page and your updated server-side code is executed.
But then, I suppose PHP itself is good enough and the people using it never felt a need for anything new. Laravel solved the lack of application structure / design handrails, and Facebook solved or worked on the bigger issues around the language - typing and runtime performance.
This "in a single file" property is probably the most unique, and maybe the most enviable feature of PHP. I don't think you can do it in any other language, except maybe by jumping through hoops (e.g. jbang and uv come close).
Also, you can do it in C - sqlite's "amalgamation" is proof of that, but they use a bundler tooling IIRC.
This "in a single file" property is probably the most unique, and maybe the most enviable feature of PHP. I don't think you can do it in any other language, except maybe by jumping through hoops (e.g. jbang and uv come close).
This "in a single file" property is probably the most unique, and maybe the most enviable feature of PHP. I don't think you can do it in any other language, except maybe by jumping through hoops (e.g. jbang and uv come close).
There's also PsySH, https://psysh.org/, for being something other than a Common Lisp or BEAM interface it's a very nice REPL. Besides Picolisp and iex it's the interactive programming environment I use the most.
This "in a single file" property is probably the most unique, and maybe the most enviable feature of PHP. I don't think you can do it in any other language, except maybe by jumping through hoops (e.g. jbang and uv come close).
Curiously, all the things I used to love about the language I now consider major liabilities and footguns. Outside of wordpress I'd have a hard time recommending it—it's so different from other webserver setups you're likely to prolong your frustration. Not to mention it's an ugly language with an incredibly inconsistent runtime library.
Nostalgia hits when I see PHP + MySQL stack. My journey with building things started with XAMPP (looks like it still exists and is maintained https://www.apachefriends.org/ ). There was a very convenient way for administering DB with their admin panel. In retrospection, despite I had 0 real knowledge in programming and it was like 2009-2010 or so, I think it was easier to build thing with this stack than to build thi…
If you, like me, find yourself in possession of databases and need to quickly pull up a simple interface to visually browse them, Adminer is for you. If you need an application development and deployment stack you'll find Adminer solves only a small portion of it.