https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/tags/php/Recent content in php on James AlvarezHugoen-gbSat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/php/Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/php/<p>PHP is often the butt of jokes online, but I've always thought that quite unfair. Turns out, that I am certainly not the only one, as outlined in this article '<a href="https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/an-internet-of-php/">The Internet of PHP</a>' where I learn that PHP is powering 77.2% of the top 10 million website backends, with the next contender being ASP.NET at a measly 6.9%. A large amount of this is Wordpress (obviously), but either way, it's a huge amount of the web and to me the summary of this article captures why:</p>https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/my-new-website-and-blog/Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/my-new-website-and-blog/<p>Inspired by <a href="https://adactio.com/articles/17701">this</a> and <a href="https://colly.com/articles/this-used-to-be-our-playground">this</a> (both sourced from <a href="https://adactio.com">Adactio’s website</a> who I sometimes play irish folk music with!) I spent some of my christmas holiday redoing my personal website and blog. It used to be a minimal effort wordpress 'jobby' with an off the shelf theme, and a number of plugins to do things that would take me 10 minutes to do in raw html. Whilst Wordpress is an incredible piece of software, I got annoyed by a number of things: the spam, the loading times, the visual clutter, constantly having to update, the vague sense of being bombarded by bots looking to hack the site and the <em>incessant</em> spam. So I decided to make my blog again without any frameworks. The benefits of not using are framework for me are:</p>