PHP developers

What do you like best?

PHP is a flexible language and can be used to build all kinds of applications, programs, and websites, hence, high demand for PHP developers in the business. PHP is considered to be a simple in semantic which help new developers to adapt the language in short span.

What do you dislike?

PHP is a simple programming language which is not suitable to hold heavy weight designs involves enterprise core functions. Enterprise core functions like sales, service, marketing may require lot of customizations using PHP.

Compare to JAVA, PHP is lagging with inbuilt compiled classes. Therefore Developer has the develop entirely, which increases development cost.

There is no enough support for PHP though there are lot of developer stack insights.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Follow the best practices while writing code, keep the functions shorter precisely less than 5 to 10 lines. Avoid duplicate code and keep less parameters. Before writing your own functions check the PHP documentation and try to reuse php methods. Add comments to you code and keep the comments descriptive and short. Remove debug statements keep the code clean. keep your variable names descriptive and defines the purpose. Do not flood all the code in the same class, keep the class role and responsibility relative to the action and extend the classes. There are lots of PHP developer stack support out there, try to make use of it.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We had a complex UI design which requires lots of DB queries, back and forth call with DB. Using PHP we were able to achieve the UX design elegantly and effectively. Debugging and resolving the issues were also easy.