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Re:A look at modern PHP by 1bc29b36f623ba8 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:28AM (#23077773)
For us techies, no, it doesn't really matter.

For average business owners who buy a WordPress template and some 5€ hosting in order to set up a business card web site on their own, on the other hand, it matters a lot. So if your project targets that group of people then PHP is pretty much the only option; anything more complicated than an FTP upload/MySQL import is pretty much to advanced for them and they generally aren't interested in learning new skills just to get a web site online.

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Re:A look at modern PHP by manigandham on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:42AM (#23077854)
Who's doing that anymore? Either you (or your staff) are technical enough to manage installing a web framework on a server, or you use any of the numerous managed sites instead. (Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Wordpress.com, Shopify, Facebook, etc)

The last thing a non-techie business owner needs is to worry about setting up a random server with bad PHP code.

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Re:A look at modern PHP by 1bc29b36f623ba8 on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:20AM (#23142399)
There's plenty of businesses selling business card web sites built on WordPress. They usually install it on whatever hosting the customer orders and then leaves the rest up to the customer.
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