PHP Programming Language

25 years of PHP history a chronological story of PHP by JetBrains.

• New in PHP 8 - stitcher.io
• PHP in 2019 - stitcher.io
• PHP The Right Way; apparently the best way to do PHP dev in 2019. :thumbsup: Also PHP - The Wrong Way
• The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software - Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog [Dec 2017]

Jan 2019 Notes:

• My Modern PHP Development Setup · John Mackenzie; Jan 2019
  • Use PHPStorm
  • Use .editorconfig
  • Use Docker
  • Use PHP-CS-Fixer
• VSCode is also nice
• Built in server – php -S localhost:8000
• Frameworks
  1. Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans and Spatie libs
  2. Lumen - PHP Micro-Framework By Laravel

Success stories

Facebook’s backups were written in PHP. Well, the second version was, anyway. (T… | Hacker News

Multiprocess, forking, long-lived, server-side, I/O intensive PHP. And it worked brilliantly. Over the following years, it scaled from a backup set of a few hundred TB to many, many petabytes.

Alternatives

alekcz/pcp: PCP: Clojure Processor – Like drugs but better

Just use it like PHP on a webserver (say nginx):

    #new pcp config => change .php to .clj
    index index.clj index.html index.htm;
    #new pcp config => change .php to .clj
    location ~ \.clj$ {
        #default nginx config on digital ocean lemp image
        #include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        #fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;

        include scgi_params;
        scgi_intercept_errors on;
        scgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    }

PCP has following libraries built in:

(require  '[cheshire.core :as json]
      '[clostache.parser :as clo]
      '[selmer.parser :as parser]
      '[selmer.filters :as filters]
      '[clj-http.lite.client :as client]
      '[next.jdbc :as jdbc]
      '[honeysql.core :as sql]
      '[honeysql.helpers :as helpers]
      '[postal.core :as email]
      '[clojurewerkz.scrypt.core :as sc])

FrankenPHP: the modern PHP app server “Uses the official PHP executor embedded in a state-of-the-art web server: Caddy”; written in golang