Is PHP dead? Absolutely not!
Today, W3Tech data shows just over 78% of the internet runs on PHP, which is less than a 2% decline from 5 years ago. But if you think about how much the internet has grown in five years, PHP is clearly a well-established programming language that continues to be a driver behind some of the largest sites like Facebook, WordPress, and Etsy.
Watch Mike Pavlak, Senior Solutions Engineer and IBM Power Champion and Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Product Manager at Zend by Perforce as they discuss the future of PHP, and how you can leverage PHP on the IBM i to build value for your business.
In this webinar, they dive into:
- Why making an investment in PHP is still the right choice
- How PHP can help modernize your business
- Why keeping up to date with releases is critical
- PHP 8 Key Feature Review
More IBM i and PHP Resources
Presenters
Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Matthew Weier O’Phinney is the Principal Product Manager at Perforce Zend and OpenLogic, where he focuses on creating the tools developers need to build and deploy their applications. He is a founding member of the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG), which creates and promotes standards for the PHP ecosystem, where he has served two elected terms on the PHP-FIG Core Committee and collaborated on many specifications.
Matthew began developing on Zend Framework (ZF) before its public release, and he led the project for Zend from 2009 through 2019. He acts as the Project Lead for the Laminas Project, which includes the subprojects Laminas API Tools (formerly Apigility) and Mezzio (formerly Expressive). He has contributed to many open source projects and communities, many of which can be found on github and his personal website.
Mike Pavlak
Mike has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. Mike was instrumental in developing the adoption of PHP as a primary solution for web development on IBM i working with Zend Technologies. Today, as Senior Sales Engineer with Perforce, Mike helps companies around the world approach the challenges of modernization and open source technologies. In addition to several roles as a volunteer with COMMON the premier IBM midrange user group, Mike also teaches PHP & Python classes part time at Moraine Valley Community College in Suburban Chicago.