Why PHP doesn't
suck anymore
Presented by
Grant Lovell (@grant_lovell)
Waterloo-Wellington Webmakers
May 14, 2014
About me
@grant_lovell
- Co-founder and Dev team lead at Vehikl
- Coding in PHP since 2000
- Organizer of Laravel KW
- PHP community advocate
- Expecting 4th kid at any moment
How DiD WE Get here?
The real Browser Wars
VS.
Humble Waterloo Beginnings
Personal Home Page
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
Personal Home Page
Web Domination
Where did we go wrong?
Haters Gonna Hate
"If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever code that runs on virtually every server in the world with zero friction or configuration hassles, PHP is damn near your only option."
- Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror
Bad information
Slow to change
The rise of the MACHINES frameworks
Strong Competitors
PHP FRAMEWORKS EVERYWHERE
FIG, Composer, and the PHP renaissance
PHP-FIG
- PSR-0 & PSR-4 Autoloading
- PSR-1 & PSR-2 Code styling
- PSR-3 Logging
Composer
getcomposer.org
THE PHP RENAISSANCE
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5.3: Support for namespaces
Lambda Functions and Closures
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5.4: Traits
Square bracket array syntax
Built-in webserver
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5.5: Generators and coroutines
"finally" class keyword
The future
LARAVEL
Learning
- PHP The right way.
phptherightway.com
- tuts+
tutsplus.com
- Laracasts
laracasts.com
Community
Thank you
Grant Lovell
@grant_lovell
g.lovell@vehikl.com
