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Published inDec 2023
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PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804610091
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Bernard Pineda
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Bernard Pineda

Bernard Pineda is a seasoned developer with 20 years of web development experience. Proficient in PHP, Ruby, Python, and other backend technologies, he has taught PHP and PHP-based frameworks through video courses on platforms like LinkedIn Learning. His extensive work with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, along with curiosity in frontend development and game development, bring a diverse perspective to this book. Currently working as a Site Reliability Engineer in Silicon Valley, Bernard is always seeking new adventures.
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PHP versus Rails in terms of price

Before you give me grief about this unfair comparison, I’m not comparing PHP and Rails directly. They can’t really be compared, as one is a programming language and the other a framework. A more fair comparison would be comparing the Laravel framework with the Rails framework. What I’m trying to convey is a PHP universe in which many tools live. But to do that, we must go back in time for a bit to when PHP finally became object oriented. This object-oriented PHP opened up a whole new world of possibilities. In 2004, PHP was already popular, and with this new feature (object-oriented programming), it became even more popular. WordPress became the standard for managing blogs and eventually websites. More web frameworks developed with PHP came into the picture: CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laravel, just to name a few. Joomla and Drupal gave developers yet another option that was a mix of a framework and a Content Management System (CMS...

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Bernard Pineda

Bernard Pineda is a seasoned developer with 20 years of web development experience. Proficient in PHP, Ruby, Python, and other backend technologies, he has taught PHP and PHP-based frameworks through video courses on platforms like LinkedIn Learning. His extensive work with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, along with curiosity in frontend development and game development, bring a diverse perspective to this book. Currently working as a Site Reliability Engineer in Silicon Valley, Bernard is always seeking new adventures.
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