With an average global salary of $39k, PHP is one of the most popular programming languages in the developer community. It’s the language behind the most popular CMS, WordPress. It is in-use by 79% of total websites globally, including the most used social network- Facebook, the largest digital encyclopedia – Wikipedia, China’s news giant Xinhuanet, and Russia’s social network VK.com.
It would be unfair not to credit the rising number of PHP web development frameworks in popularising PHP. Today, we’ve some really good web development frameworks in PHP like Laravel, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, etc. These development frameworks provide a set of libraries & API functions to accelerate the web application development process securely.
Sadly, despite all these glittery facts & figures, some dare say “PHP is a dead language.” In fact, in a recent survey, 62% of respondents voted PHP as one of the most dreaded programming languages. In the same study, only…