We all know about PHP Sadness, fractal of bad design, etc. but what is good about PHP nowadays? No sarcasm please.
What is cool about PHP programming?
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#2You can get stuff done, asap. There are a lot of higher level rails inspired frameworks like laravel or cakephp which let you get going quickly on any no name hosting site (all the UNIX ones support php). These tend to have drop in plugins with lots of functionality. Testing is supported.
Re: What is cool about PHP programming?
#3At the "low" level, if you need to get some quick and dirty database queries up onto the web, PHP is probably the best way to do it. Big and bloated PHP web apps are the worst, but if you are looking for a way to add and remove a few entries here and there, then it is a good solution for a targeted problem.
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#4As mentioned before if you want a quick way to some minor things with you site like displaying a simple visitor counter, PHP was made for it. But quick also often means dirty. There are frameworks now that will counter the dirtiness though.
As for what is actually "cool" about PHP, I would say nothing, however, I have to admit it is easy to find people willing to work with PHP. So PHP is maybe "cool" like 'Friday' was cool with so many people, I don't know, never been part of the "cool" crowd.
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#5PHP makes it very easy to run web pages that need some server backend. Back in the days, everyone was using it.
Same with Ruby, was fun when there was a lot of people using the language/tooling but nowadays the action is moving to other languages that are "cool" (go, rust, haskell, ...)
As others commented here, PHP becomes a serious bottleneck as a project becomes more complex. In fact, to deal with complexity you will see PHP tackling the problems in a manner very similar to Java, but without being Java. So in the end you'd likely be better off with Java to begin with.
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#6Some informed opinions at: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history and its HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054294
(I remembered seeing some other fb engineering talk on youtube around the release of hhvm on similar themes, a lot of extolling the edit/save/shift-ctl-r workflow and so on, and tried to find that one, but this is what came up.)
Re: What is cool about PHP programming?
#7Some informed opinions at: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history and its HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054294 (I remembered seeing some other fb engineering talk on youtube around the release of hhvm on similar themes, a lot of extolling the edit/save/shift-ctl-r workflow and so on, and tried to find that one, but this is what came up.)
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#8PHP very fast compare to the other languages like .net or java etc..
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#9PHP coding is easy to understand literate human.
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#10pays the bills. there's a lot of demand for good PHP developers - but there's a lot of bad fish in the pond.