PHP past and present life and future prospects

1. PHP’s predecessor

In 1995, PHP was born!

In fact, this year was quite lively. JAVA and JavaScript were also born in this year.

At first, PHP was just a script for verifying forms on the server side. JavaScript is a tool for completing front-end script validation.

Java is only used to write some small scripts that can be embedded in HTML.

With the strong promotion of the community, PHP was renamed "Pre Hypertext Preprocessor" hypertext processor and began a life of cheating!

Server-side rendering of HTML (taking over the front-end) was a very cool technology at the time, and PHP was both the father and mother, driving the rapid development of the Internet.

2. Current status of PHP

The PHP version has three important time nodes

1.2010 ~ 2016: php5.3 - 5.6

2.2017 ~ 2020: php7.1 - 7.3

3.2021 ~ Present: php8.0 - ...

Note:php directly skipped PHP6, and the version was directly iterated to PHP7

As of April 8, 2021, nearly 80% of the world’s websites are still driven by PHP. This proportion is possible in China It will be higher. Those who badmouth PHP every day can just go to sleep~~

##（https://w3techs.com/ 2021.4.8 No. Statistics)

But it is undeniable that since 2015, the PHP development and job market have changed dramatically.

The PHP language gene determines that it is a programming language that can be quickly started and has extremely low entry cost, resulting in many low-level developers.

The maintenance pressure of the massive projects developed using PHP in the early days burdened PHP with a huge historical burden, which once made PHP feel suffocated.

Everything has changed since 2017. The great success of PHP7.1 has brought the PHP language back to the mainstream market again, attracting the attention of developers!

(Data from BOSS Direct Recruitment Network)

Before, PHP could not implement or implement difficult functions, but now you can easily Solved, many other language developers returned to PHP.

There are many such friends around me who have migrated projects from other languages to the PHP platform. After all, who doesn’t love “rapid development”?

3. PHP future outlook

From PHP officials to PHP developers, they all have great expectations for PHP8, because this is a revolutionary and subversive sexual version.

Currently there are not many mainstream development frameworks that claim to be adapted to PHP8. Domestic "ThinkPHP6" has officially announced support. Like it!

php Chinese website, a community portal that gathers the largest number of PHP enthusiasts in China, will always breathe the same breath, share destiny, and grow together with PHP developers!

Currently, our plan to "break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly" is being planned:

php Chinese website has opened a public welfare live class "

Understanding the New Features of PHP8"; We also recorded a set of "php8 Getting Started to Development" public welfare courses, aiming to help everyone become familiar with PHP8 as soon as possible...

Tips: Starting next week, we will continue to Hold public welfare live broadcast teaching (please pay attention to the recent push)