What's Google saying about PHP in 2021?

hey guys let's check out and see what google is saying about php so uh yeah php established in 1994 very cool uh php is at version eight now so php 8.03 has been released march 2024 very very very recently very recently so what you're going to see with the php 8 upgrades are what i would consider enterprise work meaning php is now ready for the big leagues although sites like facebook and so forth uh use php anyhow let's just jump into it what is php and why is it used php is a server-side scripting language that is used to develop static websites or dynamic websites or web applications php stands for hypertext pre-process processor that earlier stood for personal home pages php scripts can only be interpreted on the server that has a php installed this video is sponsored by cloudwaves which is a managed cloud hosting platform cloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility through the choice of five cloud providers so the way cloud waves works is that it is a layer that sits on top of 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applications just in case you don't know php is similar to python javascript ruby in that they are scripting languages in that they need a runtime which is basically just a program that reads and processes all that php code so php is widely used in terms of server side programming php is the most widely used programming language out there in terms of server side we're going to look at language hierarchy soon but anyway so is the php language dead so according to w3 text data php is used by 78.9 of all websites with a known server-side programming language so almost 8 out of every 10 websites that you visit on the internet are using php in some way but when that number is still over 75 it's tough to use it's tough to use that decline to pronounce php as dead yeah so that's that's think about this this is going to blow or people's minds are blown away right now they're going php dead language is used by 78.9 of all websites on the interwebs so php is hardly dead so let's go on why is php so bad developers hate php because it's technically inconsistent language with bad design i'm going to comment on that soon when you compare to other languages a contrast is obvious it's very easy to make bad and insecure code with php but php is not a security hole or doomed to ugly code if you code properly that's the main point so one of the big misconceptions out there about php somehow it's a terrible language it's garbage yes php3 php4 to a lesser extent were really not very good and you look at the history of php in that it was developed initially just as a templating language and then people started expanding upon it and using it as a full language so the php creators started adding full-blown programming capabilities to it over time also they wanted php to be very approachable most of the early php coders not all of them were not programmers so the php creators wisely made things easy to do with php unfortunately by making it super easy it left a bunch of security holes i say wisely because by doing that by making php easy it spreads like wildfire to the point where you know we'll say 75 percent of all websites use php in some way or another over time though since php4 and then five and seven now eight they've been closing up those holes they pretty much eliminated most of them in the later versions of like 5.6 or something like that there was no php six they skipped six they went right to seven for all kinds of reasons we'll get into now and uh yeah so with php 7 and above especially it's pretty much enterprise ready if you want to build serious apps you can do with php just don't use php3 and php4 that's all what companies use php number one facebook perhaps the most notorious social media application web application with more than 1.49 billion users facebook was developed primarily using php wikipedia tumblr slack mailchimp etsy wordpress so when somebody tells you that php can't be used for serious work you can't take these people seriously right because look look look you know studio web my own sas is created with php and it works really well we use php laravel we don't have a problem and the great thing as you've as you probably know there's tons of php hosting out there so let's continue uh what is basic php syntax okay forget that will php die we'll see what this guy has to say i stated early languages never die they proliferate a php is quite popular and widely used programming language it won't fade easily don't have it at all php usage will drop down in slow and steady manner php is its own victim in some cases yeah well php is still in the top 10. so you know let's do a search for that let me uh get into a second we're gonna go um top 10 programming languages 2021. let's pull that up i'll try this one uh so give this guy some free promo here some pre-promo so here we go the site top 10 most popular program the programming language languages 2021 and beyond here are the most popular programming languages in 2021 listing is present this will help you choose the best language for web and mobile development anyway i'll get into that later so let's see what he says several programming languages are there still new ones are constantly emergency emerging but the major concern is which one running the whole market or which programming language is the most popular and well suited for web and mobile development anyway let's just go down so there's many different rankings and i can tell you these rankings are ballpark which you can always see give or take so python number one c java c plus plus c sharp r this is weird javascript php go swift typically in all the language writings which you see it's going to be python java c sharp c plus javascript php so let's go back we'll find another one tyobi index like people love to be all right we'll see what's going on here let's see what's going on so again as i said it's c java python c plus c sharp visual visual basic javascript php assembler sql go these are the typical candidates if you learn any of these you're in a good position this is one list but typically these are the languages you see in the top the top ten and php is always there so that's interesting let's look at some php jobs so i looked for php in new york new york site reliability engineer 75 to 100 000 a year a php lamp developer 110 000 a year lots of job how many jobs so 624 php jobs just in new york we'll try um miami florida it was i think it was going to be less i would imagine 86 jobs not bad 85 80 125 000 a year let's try i don't know we'll try uh los angeles california it's usually a ruby strong 325 jobs so you can see there's uh you know these are low that's like that's really low this is more like it you know it's 145 000 86 an hour 86 an hour you it's over 170 000 it's about 170 000 a year 100 000 so you get the idea lots of job opportunities in php let's see google trends so i typed in google uh php rather last 12 months look at the trend let's compare it to java so java's higher of course but in terms of the searches on google but it's it's still ballparkish let's go java the script javascript has less searches than a php ph php is blue javascript is yellow that's probably surprising people let's try c sharp c sharp is green it's about to level javascript so you can see php is holding strong java is usually king i'll dude the big one is python python is getting a lot of search to stake python's in a massive growth spike no there you go this is in the last 12 months so you can see um they're all kind of ballparkish you know they give you a comparative uh example let me get rid of c sharp remove and we're going to go with swift or swiss swift is per uh swift is doing pretty good lots of searches on swift big spike in 220 here anyway as you can see php is right up there in terms of google searches again this is not the ultimate and all you got to kind of compare jobs uh google trends let's look at the five year trend it's going to be down for most of these languages except python i imagine yeah yeah java is the one that's really fallen from the heights right if you look at that java was the king purple what's purple purple swift has a big spike back in the day but yeah yeah so yeah there you go so when you're looking at language popularities i suggest you always look at the jobs you look at the trends you look at the indexes like taiyobi as you can see php is very big it's php learning php easy one of the hardest parts about web development is learning multiple but multiple languages are required to build a website php is an easy language to grasp and it's great to start before you dive into more complex languages oh this is a no this is this is silly html is now more complex sql is not more complex javascript is not more complex so this we gotta go continue that's not the best stair is php easier than python for beginners python is much easier than php php on the other hand can be a bit tough for novice programmers php is was designed to create simple personal pages but of late it has grown in complexity this is january 21. pete the php developer community is trying hard to provide a lot of support for new programmers okay so let me just jump into that i'll end with this quick comment about that python is easier to start learning with because the syntax looks more like normal english and because it's just easy to get get up and running with versus php that said if you want to do web stuff php is easier than python because there's a lot more configurations you have to do to get python going on the web versus php python strength is that it's a general purpose programming languages programming language there's all kinds of different things and php strength is that it just does one thing and that's web but it does that very very well

Channel: Stefan Mischook

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Published: Thu Mar 25 2021