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A quick history on PHP, some of the major changes, and what is being done by the community to fix the legacy of old tutorials, and outdated learning resources.
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they grow more confident and release code.
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Unfortunately, PHP being a language with
lots of beginners in it,
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a lot of this code used to be messy,
insecure, and
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often not the most efficient way of doing
things.
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Developers would then move on to other
languages and
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leave their old code floating around on
blogs, meaning other beginners would
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find that code try using it, and the
circle would continue.
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These days PHP is a much healthier
environment with great quality
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code around.
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This is in part thanks to projects like
the PHP Framework Inter Operability Group,
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which helps write standards for PHP
projects to conform to.
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