PHP – The Right Way

• Laravel

  352 76,808 8.9 PHP

  Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

  

It comes from Laravel (https://laravel.com/); "The PHP Framework for Web Artisans". The command line entry point is also called "./artisan".

• murex

  55 1,370 9.6 Go

  A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

It very much depends on how code is written. A typical LAMP (style) stack wouldn't be any better on the cloud than it would on shared hosting. But if you can make use of serverless (eg lambda, S3 and/or DynamoDB on AWS) then that's where you'll start seeing some advantages.

https://murex.rocks is a static site that costs me pennies each month and has zero scaling issues. The site is fully automated too, built from CI/CD (Markdown converted to HTML) upon commits to a master git branch.

This isn't to say that shared hosting isn't a worthwhile option, just that cloud can be cheap albeit you do need to architect your project for using the cloud rather than lifting and shifting your existing LAMP stack and expecting that to behave the same.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• fig-standards

  47 12,509 7.7

  Standards either proposed or approved by the Framework Interop Group

  

I actually prefer auto-loading, which lets you iterate through a package manager much easier/faster - PHP iterated through PSR-0[0] before landing on PSR-4[1], and you can always build your own (which is what most frameworks pre-composer were doing).

With Rails 7 and Zeitwerk, the Ruby community has landed on a very similar auto-loading system as PHP now[2] with constants translating to paths by convention.

[0]: https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepte...

[1]: https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/

[2]: https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk#the-idea-file-paths-match-co...

• zeitwerk

  9 1,914 7.4 Ruby

  Efficient and thread-safe code loader for Ruby

I actually prefer auto-loading, which lets you iterate through a package manager much easier/faster - PHP iterated through PSR-0[0] before landing on PSR-4[1], and you can always build your own (which is what most frameworks pre-composer were doing).

With Rails 7 and Zeitwerk, the Ruby community has landed on a very similar auto-loading system as PHP now[2] with constants translating to paths by convention.

[0]: https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepte...

[1]: https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/

[2]: https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk#the-idea-file-paths-match-co...

• haxe

  82 5,957 9.7 Haxe

  Haxe - The Cross-Platform Toolkit

  

I'm trying to learn https://haxe.org , so that if some target language does not work, I could use some other target language. Currently I have hard time updating to newer version of Node.js, dependencies etc. I tried to code something with PHP 8.1 directly, but I presume any following update could change syntax etc.

• Rector

  113 8,222 9.9 PHP

  Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code

  

• sqlx

  144 11,822 9.2 Rust

  🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. (by launchbadge)

  

It also could be that the learning curve is steep to get some things done and this was a side project that I wanted to get done. That could have contributed to my bad experience, also I'm not developing in php professionally anymore and sometimes when I want to get shit done, but this time it didn't worked for me.

I would not go with nodejs/deno because it doesn't feel a resilient foundation, let's say you put your php server out there, it wouldn't crash easily or if it "crash" would not kill the entire server, so there are benefits with php in that regard, it feels more easy to fire and forget.

Go should have my go to, but because never used didn't wanted to go that route, then Rust that is more painful than php in regard of the frameworks, there are not so mature ecosystem in the web category, but I can build a resilient system with rust, even I could write plain old sql that get's validated at compile time[1], that sounds amazing (well there are few drawbacks, but I like to be able to freely refactor the app in the future and the tooling tells me where I broke it, and with all other alternatives, except Go, there is no such library).

So this is more personal preference and php didn't meet my expectations, that doesn't mean that php is bad, but for me and my use case is, we cannot blame to php yet, but I think the core developers must push even harder the type system, offer better 1st party tooling and more guaranties in regard of the integrity of your program, this is one take of rust that if it compiles it works so when you do code review you only need to review the logic :)

[1] https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• skeleton

  19 1,526 0.0 PHP

  A skeleton repository for League Packages (by thephpleague)

  

• distributed-hashmap

  1 3 0.0 C#

  A Distributed hashmap for Dapr

in all of these cases, the original array(s) remains untouched. In most OOP languages, the array would probably be mutable (or require some juggling between mutable and immutable types, like C#). That's why its surprising. It's quite verbose in PHP, but the foundations for a FP approach is all there.

What's even more surprising is when performance is comparable to a language like C# on some random benchmarks I've run[1] (opcache + JIT turned on in PHP, C# in "release" optimized compilation). I'd consider it a pretty good contender for serious things.

[1]: https://github.com/withinboredom/distributed-hashmap/blob/23...

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