Are there any plans for the future of PHP, and if so, which ones?
PHP development professionals were polled to learn what tools they use, what they’re developing, the problems they’re facing, and trends in the PHP ecosystem as part of our latest 2022 PHP Landscape Report.
Key points and questions concerning the status of PHP are addressed in this blog post.
What’s in the State of the PHP Ecosystem Report?
The following are the most important takeaways.
We polled a broad spectrum of people in the PHP community, including those in various professions, business sizes, and years of experience, to gather their thoughts on the current and future trends affecting PHP. Here are some highlights:
Intensification of efforts to update PHP-based applications
77% of respondents said they utilize (or intend to use) containerization, while 62% said the same about orchestration.
Container and Orchestration Technologies are becoming more popular in larger organizations.
A closer look into containerization and orchestration technology adoption shows that adoption rates rise as a company’s size increases. This is contrary to the normal trend in the software application business.
PHP Is Boosting Business
PHP has entered the corporate environment, with more than half (59%) of respondents utilizing it for mission-critical applications, 81% for APIs, and 41% for mobile app backends.
PHP Monitoring Is Still Difficult.
76 percent of respondents discovered bugs in their production application through user complaints, showing a need for more robust PHP monitoring.
PHP Versions in Use Are a Mix of Current and EOL
Most responders use presently available PHP versions, with PHP 7.4 being the most prevalent (65%). However, many people continue to use EOL versions of PHP.
Priorities for PHP Development
Here you’ll see how respondents rate several aspects of application development, such as adding new features, enhancing performance, enhancing security, and automating deployment.
PHP Upgrade and Version Plans
In order to gauge how quickly (or slowly!) the PHP ecosystem is responding to new release schedules, we asked our respondents which PHP versions they were using in this area.
You’ll discover:
- The most popular PHP versions.
- The most commonly used PHP-based software.
- Plans for PHP version upgrades
- PHP upgrading difficulties
Development Technologies
In this poll section, we asked participants to disclose the PHP development technology they use the most.
For this survey, we asked people to tell us about the frameworks, web servers, and development methods they are presently using.
Orchestration Technologies
There has been a remarkable rise in orchestration during the last several years, and it is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
We were keen to explore whether this was also true inside the PHP ecosystem since the technologies might significantly influence the repeatability and scalability of PHP application deployments.
This section inquires about the use of, or intention to utilize, orchestration technologies and the particular technologies used.
Asynchronous Programming
People’s knowledge of PHP’s async features, what they use, and how their applications benefit from async processing was a primary goal of our investigation.
An async framework and an example of how async programming is being used in a PHP application will be discussed in this part on the topic.
An Overview of PHP in 2022
The entire research will paint the whole picture of PHP in 2022 and beyond, but rest assured the language has made great advances.
For one thing, the language has incorporated many features from more “business” languages. The second point is that PHP developers are embracing containerization and orchestration technologies more quickly than anybody else in the business. Finally, business-critical applications are increasingly turning to PHP.
Future enterprises will be built with the help of PHP, which is flourishing and developing.