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For years, PHP developers have heard the same advice whenever performance comes up: “PHP is slow. Move to Go. Move to Rust.” Whether that criticism is fair or not, it has become part of the language’s reputation. Yet PHP has continued to evolve, introducing major improvements in performance, typing, and.

As PHP developers, we often face an important question when starting a new project: should we choose Laravel or CodeIgniter? Both frameworks are powerful in their own way, but they are not built for the same type of work. The better choice depends on the project requirements, team experience, hosting.

PHP still gets mocked at tech conferences. At the same time, PHP still powers around 77% of websites that use a known server-side language. Both of those things are true in 2026. And that gap says more about perception than reality. A 14-Year Perspective I’ve been writing PHP for more.

When PHP introduced Enums in PHP 8.1, they quickly became a better alternative to constants or string-based flags. Instead of scattering values like “active” or “inactive” across the codebase, developers could define them in a single, strongly typed structure. However, many developers still use enums only for their basic purpose:.

PHP 8.4 introduced several improvements, but one of the most interesting changes to the language’s object-oriented model is Property Hooks. At first glance, many developers focus on the obvious benefit: reducing the need for repetitive getters and setters. However, there is a less talked-about feature hidden inside this addition that.