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by mnkmnk 3644 days ago
Why are all the popular ecommerce frameworks written in PHP? Magento, prestashop, woocommerce etc
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georgestephanis 3644 days ago
Of websites using a discernable server-side programming language, over 80% of them use PHP -- https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua... -- The four biggest content-management systems on the web are all PHP -- https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management...
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benmarks 3642 days ago
Accessibility of language, number of developers, and hosting resources. Quality is a different story.
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popthestack 3644 days ago
Ease of setup, I think. Almost every web server in existence can run PHP.
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spriggan3 3644 days ago
Ease of deployment. LAMP stack was PAAS before PAAS was a thing.
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estivate 3644 days ago
a lot of these systems were built back when PHP was hipper. Despite its drawbacks PHP is the energizer bunny of web tools...
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