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I started coding in 2007 to build a website for a Tae Kwon-Do School I used to train at.<\/p>\n\n

It was written with HTML and CSS and only contained a few small pages.<\/p>\n\n

When I wanted to add more dynamic content, such as news articles and events, I started to expand and started to use PHP and MySQL.<\/p>\n\n

PHP was a great first programming language for me (ignoring HTML and CSS), and it's gone through so many improvements since 2007, as well as the PHP content management systems and frameworks.<\/p>\n\n

I think a lot of new coders only learn or are taught JavaScript and I can understand why if they've only got a short time, such as on a bootcamp, but I also think there is a benefit to learning another language - such as PHP.<\/p>\n\n

PHP has Composer to manage dependencies, various robust content management systems and frameworks, PHPUnit and Pest for automated testing, PHPStan and Psalm for static analysis, and much more.<\/p>\n\n

I'd definitely recommend taking a look at PHP if you haven't already.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

I started coding in 2007 to build a website for a Tae Kwon-Do School I used to train at.<\/p>\n\n

It was written with HTML and CSS and only contained a few small pages.<\/p>\n\n

When I wanted to add more dynamic content, such as news articles and events, I started to expand and started to use PHP and MySQL.<\/p>\n\n

PHP was a great first programming language for me (ignoring HTML and CSS), and it's gone through so many improvements since 2007, as well as the PHP content management systems and frameworks.<\/p>\n\n

I think a lot of new coders only learn or are taught JavaScript and I can understand why if they've only got a short time, such as on a bootcamp, but I also think there is a benefit to learning another language - such as PHP.<\/p>\n\n

PHP has Composer to manage dependencies, various robust content management systems and frameworks, PHPUnit and Pest for automated testing, PHPStan and Psalm for static analysis, and much more.<\/p>\n\n

I'd definitely recommend taking a look at PHP if you haven't already.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }