Future of PHP

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Future of PHP


which is basically designed for website development but it can also be used for a complex application just like Java or C.
PHP is a procedural as well as Object oriented language.
And now a days approximately 83% websites are using PHP as their server-side language.
Source: w3techs.com
There is a list of popular websites which are using PHP
  1. Facebook (Using HHVM and Hack – customized PHP)
  2. Yahoo
  3. Wikipedia
  4. WordPress.com
  5. Flickr

Now the question is being so popular and used by so many websites, PHP is not preferred by most of the developers and IT companies.

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by DNSUnlocker
I am PHP programmer having experience of 4+ years. According to there are some main reasons why people are not liking PHP.
  1. Support :- PHP community does not provide good support and release for new versions are very delayed. Finally after a long time community launched PHP 7 which far better and faster than PHP 5.
  2. Missing multi-threading :- PHP does not support multi-threading. Nowadays everyone want to save time, so multithreading is a very important feature of a programming language.
  3. Security vulnerabilities :-  These are the main security threats in PHP –
    • SQL Injection
    • XSS (Cross Server Scripting)
    • Source code revelation
    • Session hijacking
    • CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery)
  4. Weak Type :- PHP is a loosely typed language. Variables are not defined as a data type. Sometimes this creates confusions.
  5. Interpreted :- It’s not a compiled language which increase the security threats.
  6. Not good for huge application :-  Experts say that PHP is not good for huge application due to complexity in file’s structure and directory managements.
Source: w3tech.com

Versions Comparison :-

Recently PHP 7 is launched with some exciting features like
  1. Data type declaration (Optional)
  2. Function’s return type declaration (Optional)
  3. Anonymous classes
  4. Exceptionally faster than PHP 5
  5. Some new operators
But still PHP 5 is being used in existing websites, because migration to PHP 7 is not so easy due to removal of some deprecated functions.
Source: w3tech.com

Conclusion:-

After seeing some drawbacks about PHP, developers thinks to avoid PHP, but in real a lots of application are based on PHP which is not easy to migrate.
Day by day percentage of PHP websites are increasing
Source: w3tech.com

Reasons behind the popularity of PHP are

  1. Now Laravel (PHP framework) is providing competitive features to make an existence in programming world.
  2. There were some concern about speed but new version of PHP is approximately 200% than it’s previous version.
  3. Some CMS like WordPress, Drupal and Magento are coded in PHP and being used vastly in market for setting up a site quickly.
  4. PHP is easy to start.
  5. Too much contents over internet regarding PHP problems.
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