PHP in 100 Seconds 

Finally, the final boss of the 100 seconds series

Never thought this day would come.

Although I've been working for a while with JS, PHP has put food on the table for 9 years now

No matter how much hate PHP gets, it'll always have a special place in my heart. I built a crappy backend for a mobile app I made to enter a software competition back in 2012. All vanilla PHP, no frameworks. Good memories.

I've worked with php for 15 years and I loved every second of this basic explainer video

Oh yes, PHP. Now I can't wait for Ruby on rails in 100 seconds 💎🎉

I have been doing PHP for more than 7 years now but still, love watching your video :) Thanks!

I’ve been using php for 22 years. And though it sounds like you’ve never used it, you did a bang up job explaining it in 100 seconds. Cheers

PHP is like that silent guy in the back that no one talks to or about but deeply inside they all know he's the boss.

THAT’S WHY IT’S PHP That acronym drove me insane for so long and somehow no one I’ve asked knew it’s origin I can finally free myself of this burden lmao

You missed the strong typing that it has as of PHP 7, it's a great addon that they added

Though please be aware, modern PHP is very heavily typed. Variables are not typed, but object properties, function parameters, and function returns have a very robust type system to support them. They're all technically optional, but nearly all professional code these days is fairly heavily typed. It's also impressively fast for a nominally interpreted language. (It's actually compiled to bytecode first, then that's cached and executed.) We also basically never mix HTML and PHP in one file anymore. 🙂

As a primary PHP dev, this video hit me in the feels.

This made me miss PHP. It hasn't been long, only about 8 months since I last coded in PHP, but I do miss it 😂

As a Laravel developer, I was waiting for this.

PHP will always have a special place in my heart. At a time when, as a student, I was struggling to make ends meet, PHP freelance jobs were what kept me from sinking.

That image that comes with "... modern pragmatic language ..."!!! Your choice of visual support is again and remains one of the best things of your 100sec videos!

I’ve been using php for 100 years. And though it sounds like you’ve never used it, you did a bang up job explaining it in 100 seconds. Cheers

I can't wait for Elixir and Phoenix in 100 seconds 💧🔥

Never thought that a video on PHP could be so interesting!

I work with technologies you make videos about on a day to day basis but continue to watch all the way through every video you post. Nice work!

Thank you! last night i was writing some php code for my own CMS to enable its own search engine. it worked well eventually. after every night in which i added some php codes to my CMS, in the next morning, i feel like i'am completed and rewarded of my own. still it is 7 months i started learning php properly. php is making my expectation fulfill. i am not a programmer in profession but love programming.

PHP deserves more love. It's great how simple it is to use and how flexible it can be.

I have been coding in php since 2011. It has given me endless opportunities and made me the developer I am today. After learning laravel recently I don't think I will be abandoning php anytime soon.

Ahh it brings back memories. PHP is like my first car, not that great, but it took me where I wanted to go.

Your content creation within the boundaries of 100 seconds always amazes, just WOW !!

Most concise video ever on PHP! Love PHP and love the video. PHP and Laravel developer here.

I've been 14 years since my journey begin as developer and still my main language is PHP. Really very nostalgic time when starting from vanilla, procedural PHP with mysql_connect function, then making my own framework(TBH sucks haha), then switching to Codeigniter then finally Laravel.

next up laravel? Mentioned here, maybe a dedicated video would be cool

Java dev: - I had to work once on php project, it was so bad. PHP dev: - I had to work with multiple Java projects, and most of them were full of sh*t. Summary: don't judge programming language based on the legacy projects you were given to work with.

Php was my first back end language. Love your 100 seconds videos. Waiting for more

I was waiting until you made this video fireship. VERY surprised you made it this late. Perfect content my friend.

PHP FTW, I've been using it for 10 years now. The language is developing over time. The latest versions and features they're coming with are damn good. Great community and development team.

php is a Door of every web developer 😍 Man thank you so much.

Composer and the PSR's has really raised the language to a new level. In PHP5 it was somewhat clunky to use, in PHP7 and PHP8 it is really smooth to use OOP and TDD.

Fantastic work as always Jeff!

Php 8 is way different than php 5, I wish you’ve showed what people are missing nowadays…

PHP is one of the most hated just because it's one of the most used. Excellent video.

I'm usually skeptical of development tech videos (I'm a veteran) but this one was pretty cool. Thanks.

This #100SecondsOfCode series is just pure art!

I love PHP, I don't write in it anymore, but it's one of my first languages I learned because of how easy it is to approach and easy to integrate into HTML creating dynamic websites with ease.

PHP is a great language, it has transformed so much. Really no reason for people to hate on it

It is great you did that video. Using the Symfony framework you can build gigantic awesome websites ! Now please do Symfony in 100 seconds !!! Thanks for your awesome work.

My first experience of PHP was version 4 (latest at the time). It blew my young computer geek's mind away. I made my first website with a dynamic DATE on it. It's my second most significant experience with computers, second to discovering how I could code in basic to play music on the computer's speaker. Usually from dos, with gwbasics and qbasics later (I was a young kid then). I've had to maintain or extend some projects with php but I'm not fluent in modern php. I like how JS/TS has become a one army tool.

PHP is what made me choose Web development as my career. It's the language i used for building my thesis website in my final college years.

Ooo, Jeff making video on php, this is new! As a php developer, I really appreciate this. Lol

Why did i discover this channel only now? It's awesome. As Laravel developer i really appreciate this video.

Yours videos are dope man!! Thanks for sharing this kind of content

I miss those days of editing functions.php over FTP connection 😁

PHP is special to me. Wanted to make a website and eventually crossed paths with PHP as kid. 15 years later and PHP is the reason why I have my job. I was happy when the language finally advanced significantly with the official release of PHP 7 back then, massively improving what you can do and performance of big applications.

thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one😁😉

Didn't expect to see PHP since it gets so much unwarranted (read: old) hate, so thank you lol. Please do a follow up with Laravel in 100 seconds! It's incredible how many things can be done with it, and I've loved working with it professionally, and I can argue it can do things the same as competitors like Java and C#, with the same code quality, if the right people with the right mindset work on the codebase. And the development time and basic setup are so much faster as well.

Ahh, the old days with just HTML, CSS, vanilla Js, and PHP.

I read a 500-page book about laravel framework without any intention to use it. It's just such a clever and beautiful architecture. Really recommend it, just for inspiration

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 Despite *criticism, PHP remains popular for back-end web development, powering major sites like WordPress and Wikipedia.* 00:27 PHP, *created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, was one of the first languages embedded in HTML, revolutionizing web development accessibility.* 01:09 To *start with PHP, create a PHP file, add basic HTML, and use `` tags to enter PHP mode. Echo outputs values, and variables start with a `.* 01:51 PHP *supports multiple programming paradigms, including first-class functions, built-in functions for various tasks, and object-oriented patterns.* 02:05 PHP *version 8 offers modern language features, making it essential knowledge for web developers due to its widespread use.* Made with HARPA AI

I'm a multilangual dev with about 10 years experience, coding in many languages on a daily basis (PHP, Python, C#, C++, Lua, *SQL, Java, JavaScript). And I absolutely love PHP. I have written my own framework in PHP, and I love its flexibility and freedom compared to other languages. Often the critic to why people say PHP is bad, is why I like it.

Even though I am using react and js now. Php helped me get my food for 12 years now :) happy to see this 100 seconds and made me think about old days !!

PHP give me everything both Financial and Personal. truly grateful technology 🙂

This is one amazing language. PHP helped me to learn classes and objects and arrays. Because I was struggling with JavaScript and classes, I found PHP classes much easier to learn. At the moment I use both Javascript and PHP.

So satisfying to see PHP getting a bit of love. Would recommend it to anyone wanting to build their first web app and beyond. Shout out to the Symfony framework -- just excellent.

I love PHP8 with it's constructor property promotion. It's soooooo nice

1) do not forget that php is a more working language, while the more rated python is used for education at school and institute, because of this it has a higher citation. 2) composer and laravel raised php to another level

Its not the time that matters but the quality of content hats up for you 👍👍

OMG I WAS LEGIT WONDERING WHY NO PHP ON FIRESHIP AND I CHECKED LIKE MONTH AGO AND BOOM U MADE IT I LOVE U MAN

Although you can, serious PHP frameworks do not mix PHP with HTML but use template languages and separate those concerns.

Laravel is the best HTTP-backend framework that I’ve ever seen in any language

Damn man. That was awesome. Thanks, Man.

I was waiting for this since your channel creation

I've been waiting for this day!!! Thanks Fireship! Hope you join the dark side and talk more about PHP technologies

Even though variables are dynamic in type, from PHP 7.4 you can declare typed class properties :)

Please keep doing these language videos! I would love to see an episode on C# or Kotlin!

PHP will always have a special place in my heart. I built a crappy website on PHP back in 2012. All vanilla PHP, no frameworks at all. Unfortunately, it became lost when my old computer stopped working in 2017. Good memories.

What I love about PHP is that it is easy, versatile and basically runs on any server. And it works well with JS and the fetch api, if I need to get/manipulate data from the server. I don't understand the hate at all. I mean, look at this cute elephant!

The legend that deserves its 100 seconds

nice short but very informative video about php and its origin!

It's only been about 3 years since I stopped using php, but I can't believe how it went from being my favorite language to now where I barely recognize it. I've forgotten so much.

Laravel is the most powerful web framework I have seen in my 8 years of web dev

I feel proud for being a PHP developer after watching this lol 😅

PHP also becomes more and more type-safe. Ofc. you can still ignore the type definiton or use mixed (like any in TypeScript) but if not, the interpreter will actually throw exceptions at runtime.

been waiting for course announcement for pro members at the end

I have been using php for 0 years, and i loved every second of the video. Php will always have a special place in my heart, it has brought no food to the table and i love this video.

I love coding in php, The fact that its old makes it really good because there is alot of documentation for php. For me personally it is amazing because everything is straight to the point, Its incredibly simplistic.

love it, thank you

this 100 seconds video + documentation is what requred to get start with new language

For anyone that doesn't know, the PHP Interpreter's name is the Zend Engine. It's one of the languages with a really cool sounding runtime

The king :) Laravel and wordpress made it number 1 while php updates after 7 made it a real fast and safe!

I Love WordPress and I love PHP, thank's for make this video!

I never thought this day would come, you have got to do a video on Laravel next!

First started with CSS 2 and HTML 3, fell in love with Ruby on Rails 4 but found work with Laravel 5. My journey to fullstack never ceases to amaze me.

i've been coding in php for last 5 years now and just now started learning python. for me PHP was a good starting point and i got to learn just about everything in programming and completed some client projects.

I was waiting for this a long time ago

THANK YOU! My professor has us learning PHP in an open source class but just threw php at us without any context. Its an online course and hes notorious for just throwing you a link to documentation rather than ACTUALLY explaining anything at all. This video gave me actual context on what I am doing with what and for what purpose, something that I usually dont get until way later.

Been programming professionally for 6 years and I use PHP in both large and small applications. Definitely not going anywhere despite what is always said about it.

Nice. Haven't touched it in years. Went to JS and never looked back.

over 10 years here writing PHP and BOY this vid put a big smile on my face

Would love to see you do HTML Canvas drawing!

Ah PHP... Despite it's problems, I feel right at home with it. It's what I started out with writing my first line of code ever. That was 11 years ago, from a book my dad got me.

You're a legend. Nothing more to add

I wish this day would have never come. Fireship making me like every single language/framework out there with this 100 second videos.

No way php is dead. I still use it with jquery. And it is still very powerful and usefull after all this years.