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For several years now, there has been talk of PHP’s supposed decline. If that were true, WordPress wouldn’t exist, because PHP is precisely the foundation upon which WordPress was built. And that is why websites and online stores have become more flexible, websites are more dynamic, and, in a way, their cost has gone down due to the reduced need for manual coding.
As for coding, native PHP has evolved into its respective frameworks; just to give an example, we can mention CodeIgniter and Laravel, and they are constantly releasing new versions with improvements.
Despite all the uncertainty surrounding claims of its alleged decline, PHP remains in the top 10 of the most popular programming languages.
Let's keep in mind that, currently, PHP is present in the 80% of the entire Web and it continues to improve steadily by addressing its shortcomings, especially those related to security; furthermore, we can say today that PHP is more alive than ever, and its new version 8 is proof of that.
In fact, the framework Laravel Releases Version 10 because PHP is in version 8, both come with many improvements; in addition to the aforementioned security features, they also include strong typing, something many of us have been asking for.
Every day we see the creation and growth of more communities for various programming languages, and PHP—along with WordPress and its associated frameworks—is no exception. These communities provide support to both junior and senior programmers. Thanks to the digital world, it’s no longer necessary to attend an in-person talk or pay for an expensive course to learn a language; forums and online communities are a great help in answering our questions. Of course, we can’t dismiss paid courses—they’re actually very valuable—because no educational institution can provide such in-depth knowledge as video-based courses do, where we follow the instructor step by step thanks to their very precise instructions. It’s precisely through these courses that we come to understand the history and level of scalability PHP offers, along with its ease of integration with HTML and CSS—that is, PHP is a backend programming language; however, it integrates very well with the frontend through .blade files in the case of Laravel—as well as excellent compatibility with its mini-framework, Lumen, which helps us implement our APIs.