Blog /PHP

Facebook, CNBC, NASA, Wikipedia, Business Insider, Harvard University... these are just some examples of websites built on PHP – the most popular programming language used by 82% of websites. Continuous development and a huge community make PHP the choice e.g. of start-ups which consider PHP as the perfect solution, as well as large companies and institutions around the world. In the text below I describe how it all began and how the successive versions have changed over the years.

PHP is an interpreted programming language, which has long struggled to improve its performance, which was particularly bleak in comparison to other competing programming languages used in web development. Among what is new in PHP 8, the JIT compiler deserves special attention, as it was officially included in the latest version. Will this step be an actual breakthrough, or nothing but a blip, an interesting addition to the language? Let's see what real benefits it can bring and whether it will bring any real-world improvement of the performance of your application.

The release of PHP 8 has been making circles on the web for quite some time now, and although there are still almost two months to go, we already know what’s new and which of the changes can make it really hard to seamlessly switch from PHP 7 to the most recent release.

Laravel and Symfony are the frameworks compared very often, and there is a lot of discussion about them in the forums. Today, however, I do not want to focus on comparing, but on showing the advantages of Laravel and describing what made the greatest, obviously positive impression on me.

When building an internet startup, one of the important decisions a founder has to make is the technology to be used. We have compiled a list of reasons why you should choose PHP.

We had the pleasure to take part in one of the largest industry conferences for developers – PHPCon Poland 2019 – as its Platinum Sponsor. With 543 participants, we can say that the conference was pretty popular, and once again, the event has made a very good impression on us. Workshops and presentations Due to a large number of lectures. the programme was divided into two main streams – Green and Blue.

The PHPCon Poland 2019 conference will be held at "Centrum Kongresów i Rekreacji Orle Gniazdo" in Szczyrk from 15th to 17th November 2019. The place wasn't picked at random. It was there where some of the best of the previous editions of PHPCon were held. Judging by this year's agenda we are sure that it's going to be a very interesting edition.  Together with the whole Droptica team, we've picked for you 5 lectures that are worth seeing: 1.

At Droptica, we have been regularly recruiting PHP developers for quite some time now. We often get asked what exactly does one have to know in order to join our team, mostly by people who are starting their careers as developers or who want to switch jobs or even industries.  The extent of “PHP development” knowledge is vast and our expectations regarding our candidates may not be obvious for some.

Projects implemented by Droptica often require a large amount of coding in PHP. Taking advantage of various tool and configurations allows us to streamline the process and make it far more convenient and pleasant. In this post, we wanted to share our experiences and describe an ideal software configuration for coding in PHP (mainly in Drupal, since we are a Drupal agency). The base software that we use includes Linux (most people use Ubuntu) and PHPStorm as IDE.