I do a lot of utility programming in it.. (prob cause I know it well) * quick web scraping script (just with curl or file_get_contents) not the insane https-re

I do a lot of utility programming in it.. (prob cause I know it well) * quick web scraping script (just with curl or file_get_contents) not the insane https-request-libs * parsing some CSV files and generate SQL statements * one-page website for monitoring/dashboard * logging scripts (speed test hourly - working on article) Even built a CLI xml feed processing system with it. Php7 is really fast and memory efficient. Not saying there aren't better or faster languages. Guess its just a tool a reach for often, since I know it well and you can get far with a basic install without loading 1000 of npm/js packages. I only seldom need to use composer for my my* purposes.