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Developed By Ken Key

Modern PHP in 2026: How to Write Code You Won’t Hate in Two Years

Most PHP codebases don’t rot because the language is bad. They rot because nobody sets rules early and the framework gets blamed for it… Nov 16, 2024 · 3 min read Read
Development Tips

Node.js vs PHP in 2026: Which Should You Actually Build On?

Every few years someone declares PHP dead, and every few years PHP ships another release and keeps running a huge chunk of the web.… Nov 9, 2024 · 6 min read Read
Developed By Ken Key

PHP in 2026: What Actually Changed and What Still Matters

PHP turned 30 last year, and it is still the language running most of the web. But the PHP most people learned in 2015… Oct 25, 2024 · 5 min read Read
Developed By Ken Key

PHP Best Practices in 2026: A Working Developer’s Checklist

Most “PHP best practices” posts are a list of rules copied from 2014. Half of them are obsolete, and the other half ignore the… Oct 19, 2024 · 6 min read Read
Developed By Ken Key

Modern PHP in 2026: What “PHP Power” Actually Means for a Real Website

PHP gets a bad rap from people who last touched it around 2010. The language most working sites actually run today is a different… Oct 14, 2024 · 5 min read Read
Javascript

PHP vs JavaScript in 2026: Which One Should You Actually Use?

People ask me this constantly, and the honest answer is that the question is a little broken. PHP and JavaScript are not competing for… Sep 24, 2024 · 6 min read Read