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Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by lmm on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:33PM (#32327358)
PHP is pretty batteries-included, sometimes to a fault (it comes with things like 3 different MySQL drivers in the standard library). I'm sure there are cases where you'd want to install a C extension that depended on some system library, but I can't actually think of any right now.
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Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by asddubs on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @08:54AM (#32331044)
imagick for imagemagick is a common one. but yeah, you can go really far with just relying on php standard features
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