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Cool Projects & Movements to Propel PHP to the Next Level

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The PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is one of the world's most widely used programming language. Although PHP developers and users admitted that the language isn't perfect but there are various reasons why it beneficial to learn the language in the next few years.

There are movements and cool projects develop and used by some PHP enthusiast that will help propel PHP to higher level. PHP started out as as what we could refer to today as templating language.

Since then, it has gone through multiple paradigm shifts, transforming into a functional language, like C, and then to the fully OOP language that we enjoy today.

Here are some of the cool projects & Movement that will Propel PHP to the Next Level;

1. Composer

Composer is inspired by tools, like Bundler and NPM, with the use of composer, the PHP community can now stop reinventing the wheel over and over again. With the use of composer, you can feel comfortable with using packages through Node.js.

Packages are installed locally to your project's directory, it's easy to find documentation for most of the plugins, and it's relatively simple to submit your own packages.

2. Laravel

Laravel provides you with the feel and elegance of a language, like Ruby, but with the ease of PHP. It comes with Eloquent, an ORM that completely rethinks everything to do with databases.

3. Test Driven Development

Test Driven Development is important because many times, when you set out to write some code, you lose something in the translation.
TDD will help you write clear tests before writing any production code. Meaning, when you get to writing your actual code, it is forced to conform to your original plan.

Dependencies will be tracked in your tests also, If you update a bit of code, and inadvertently break one of the tests, you will immediately be notified.

4. PHP 5.4.16 Released

For more information regarding the Projects & Movements to Propel PHP just visit Net.TutsPlus.com

 

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