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I still feel bad about the image of people towards PHP, but given the amount of bad tutorials and packages that are outdated out there I understand that most en

I still feel bad about the image of people towards PHP, but given the amount of bad tutorials and packages that are outdated out there I understand that most enterprise / startup wants to avoid having to code in PHP again. For the past couple of years I have been working with laravel in a small company, and I really enjoyed it. The environment that it provides honestly is amazing. Documentation is super easy to read, laracast is amazing to bootstrap your knowledge in couple of weeks, and community is huge that you can find almost anything already built by them. However its hard to find any big companies here that uses PHP, jobs popping up is mostly python, java and c#, thus sadly I have to leave php and learn java / python for the new big tech job (also for my own future). Its not that java / python community is bad, but I'll surely miss the laravel ecosystem.

charrondev 5y ago
I’m a tech lead for Vanilla Forums (recently acquired by Higher Logic). We have a few PHP positions open (remote or onsite). The core product is open source https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla If your looking to stick with PHP you can check the open positions or reach out to my contact info in my profile. https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/ https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/
paulddraper 5y ago
> However its hard to find any big companies here that uses PHP There's one pretty big one....Faceledgar? Peoplebook? Something like that.
- ummonk 5y ago
  It's nothing like vanilla PHP.
- anaganisk 5y ago
  Dont rhey have their ownn PHP Frankenstein?
  - Sebb767 5y ago
    It's literally called hack. Quite self-aware ;) Though, recently PHP got quite a few features similar to hack, like type annotations.
    - ransom1538 5y ago
      Sure - fork something, call it something else, pretend it is new. There are a ton of dollar signs in the FB source code.
  - ransom1538 5y ago
    Wordpress. I would google it. It is pretty big. Runs %60 of the internet. (made that part up, but I bet I am close).
- robertwt7 5y ago
  Yeah, 1, and not many jobs opening here in AU lol
ransom1538 5y ago
If you are going from php to python just remove the dollar signs $ and update how you treat strings. Those languages are cousins. Honestly, within 2 weeks you wont look back. However, Python2 vs Python3 makes php look like a bunch of geniuses and you will miss php.net. The php8 team is really awesome and the language is pushing forward. But if you need to be 'hip' yeah learn python a 30 year old language from 1991 :)
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charrondev 5y ago

I’m a tech lead for Vanilla Forums (recently acquired by Higher Logic). We have a few PHP positions open (remote or onsite). The core product is open source https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla If your looking to stick with PHP you can check the open positions or reach out to my contact info in my profile. https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/ https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/

paulddraper 5y ago

> However its hard to find any big companies here that uses PHP There's one pretty big one....Faceledgar? Peoplebook? Something like that.

ummonk 5y ago
It's nothing like vanilla PHP.
anaganisk 5y ago
Dont rhey have their ownn PHP Frankenstein?
- Sebb767 5y ago
  It's literally called hack. Quite self-aware ;) Though, recently PHP got quite a few features similar to hack, like type annotations.
  - ransom1538 5y ago
    Sure - fork something, call it something else, pretend it is new. There are a ton of dollar signs in the FB source code.
- ransom1538 5y ago
  Wordpress. I would google it. It is pretty big. Runs %60 of the internet. (made that part up, but I bet I am close).
robertwt7 5y ago
Yeah, 1, and not many jobs opening here in AU lol

ransom1538 5y ago

If you are going from php to python just remove the dollar signs $ and update how you treat strings. Those languages are cousins. Honestly, within 2 weeks you wont look back. However, Python2 vs Python3 makes php look like a bunch of geniuses and you will miss php.net. The php8 team is really awesome and the language is pushing forward. But if you need to be 'hip' yeah learn python a 30 year old language from 1991 :)

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