32 - PHP with Etienne Marais

We get to work understanding the world of PHP, that scripting language that runs the vast majority of the internet. Is it more than just Wordpress? Join us as we find out!

Kevin & Len are joined by Etienne Marais, a senior PHP developer at Superbalist. Before moving to Cape Town, we met Etienne at the Johannesburg Laravel User meetup that he was organizing. Etienne points us to the TIOBE index, Netcraft's survey and Venturebeat's analysis of popular languages on GitHub, consistently showing PHP as one of the most popular languages in use on the internet today. Etienne has been using PHP for nearly a decade and helps our panelists get up to speed with how PHP has evolved and matured.

Follow Etienne online:

• https://twitter.com/etbal
• https://github.com/etiennemarais
• https://medium.com/@etbal

Here are some resources mentioned during the show:

• PHP website - http://php.net
• TIOBE Index - http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index
• Top 10 languages on GitHub according to Venturebeat - http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/19/here-are-the-top-10-programming-languages-used-on-github/
• PHP Usage based on Netcraft survey - http://php.net/usage.php
• LAMP Stack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)
• PHP 6 or PHP 7 - https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2014/07/23/neverending-muppet-debate-of-php-6-v-php-7/
• HHVM - http://hhvm.com/
• Hack - http://hacklang.org/
• Laravel - https://laravel.com/
• Docker - https://www.docker.com
• Vagrant - https://vagrantup.com/
• PEAR (Legacy package management) - http://pear.php.net/
• Composer dependency manager - https://getcomposer.org/
• https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2012/03/06/packages-the-way-forward-for-php/
• Namespaces in PHP - http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.php
• Travis & PHP - https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/php
• MVC Framework - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller
• TWIG templates - http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
• Blade templates - https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/blade
• Smarty Template Engine - http://www.smarty.net/
• Zend Framework - http://framework.zend.com/
• Code Igniter Framework - https://www.codeigniter.com/
• Symfony Framework - https://symfony.com/
• PHP The Right Way - http://www.phptherightway.com/
• Eloquent Models (Laravel) - https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent
• Doctrine Models (Symfony) - http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/doctrine.html
• Angular - https://angularjs.org/
• React - https://facebook.github.io/react/
• Phing - https://www.phing.info/
• Packer - https://www.packer.io/intro/
• Ansible - https://www.ansible.com/
• Joburg PHP Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/PHP-Johannesburg-Meetup-Group/
• PHP SA 2016 Conference - http://phpsouthafrica.com/

Picks

• Build
  • Lumen
  • Laracasts
  • Terraform by Hashicorp
• Kevin
  • Kubernetes
• Len
  • Semantic UI

Thanks for listening!

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