About "Is PHP dead?"

About "Is PHP dead?" 💭

This website was inspired by the original https://is-php-dead.lol (offline now) website by Ryan Chandler. I wanted to have more content, links and statistics, not just a simple obvious answer.

Stack 🗒️

PHP 8.4 (8.4.17)
Laravel 12.47 (12.47.0) (as a micro-framework)

composer.json

"require": {
    "php": "^8.4",
    "🕸/laravel": "^4.0",
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.2",
    "laravel/framework": "^12.0",
    "laravel/sanctum": "^4.0",
    "laravel/tinker": "^2.8",
    "phpdocumentor/type-resolver": "^1.12"
},

Other vendors 🎨

Classless CSS framework: Simple.css by Kev Quirk

Fun facts (or not) 🤡

There is not a single line of JavaScript on this website.
It is my first Laravel project.

Why using Laravel? 👨‍🎨👩‍🎨

Because I don't want to handle routing, templating, sessions, flash messages, custom error pages, caching, events, services manually... I think I've made my point.

Why not using Symfony? 🎶

It's good to vary pleasures, isn't it? 🤝
But OK, if you really want, you can find the Symfony version here.

What is the difference with the Symfony version? 🤔

Absolutely none.