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Four ways to make PHP coding easier

Bkjia’s selected translation] Although the PHP language has established its own software culture, it is definitely not difficult to find its maddening drawbacks. In a previous article, we listed the twelve worst features of the language that are most unacceptable to developers.

However, in the past few years, PHP has undergone a series of changes - from the language itself to the related ecosystem to support for the developer community - which are indeed worthy of our attention. Although users who have abandoned PHP and devoted themselves to Python or Ruby are unlikely to be attracted back anytime soon, there are already signs that someone is indeed sparing no effort to improve PHP. Let's take a look at the four major improvements that have come to the PHP language.

1. Software package and dependency management

Until recently, the only way to manage PHP packages was to use PEAR (the PHP Extensions and Applications Library). However, PEAR has long been criticized by developers for being difficult to use and is filled with a large number of outdated and unmaintained software components. Most of the more popular PHP frameworks have their own unique package management systems - such as CakePHP's Bakery, CodeIgniter's Sparks, etc. - but they do little or nothing to take care of PHP as a whole.

The biggest change in this area comes from Composer, which absorbs the excellent elements of Node.js's NPM system and Ruby's Bundler. It tracks packages on a project basis, making it easier for developers to figure out which packages a specific project needs and install them in an automated way. It works in conjunction with a library called Packagist, which already contains a large number of commonly used PHP applications, frameworks, and components.

2. Hack/HHVM

The other two most significant changes to PHP come from outside PHP's own system - more precisely, from Facebook: Hack language and HHVM (HipHop virtual machine). The former inherits the mantle of PHP and adds a series of functions that cannot be implemented by PHP by default, such as static object types. The latter can compile PHP code into C++ code to speed up its execution, ultimately bringing nearly ten times the original performance level. Both are relatively new innovations, so their long-term impact on PHP remains to be seen. However, they at least show that mainstream Web service giants do show strong interest and serious attitude towards PHP, and therefore use it as their chosen platform solution.

3. PHP-FIG

Although it sounds like a snack to relieve boredom (Fig (Fig)), this is actually a PHP framework program group, which summarizes the standards created by PHP developers for building development, including how to achieve consistency. way to develop your own projects). Technical staff from projects such as CakePHP, Drupal, Joomla and SugarCRM have officially joined the group and provided standardized mechanisms for many daily tasks - including coding style guides, library login interfaces and how to handle automatic loading of classes. wait.

This group is completely voluntary and not a formal organization, but they hope that "over time, its coverage can be expanded to a wider range of project areas."

4. Phpng project

Developing an updated version of the PHP language ontology is another excellent idea that brings comprehensive improvements to the language. This branch of PHP development, known as Phpng, contains many improvements aimed at clarifying how much memory a specific operation requires and how many machine instructions are required to complete a specific operation. Much of the work was sponsored by PHP vendor Zend Technologies, whose PHP engine is widely used in commercial installations of the language.

Of course, most of these improvements are only to improve its performance rather than changing the much-ridiculed grammatical features of the PHP language - unfortunately, there are still no signs of these problems being resolved. Perhaps the next major innovation in PHP will not be as disruptive as Hack, but more like a translation language like JavaScript extensions that can achieve native compilation effects.

English: http://www.infoworld.com/t/php-web/4-ways-php-coding-getting-less-painful-245435

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