/php

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. It runs server-side, embeds directly into HTML and powers a large share of the web, Drupal and WordPress among it.

PHP is the language I keep coming back to not because it is elegant, but because it is everywhere and it gets deployed: a file on a server and you are running. Most of the time spent with it is not writing the language at all, but wrestling the stack around it — the bundled interpreter on macOS, legacy Apache configuration, and the extensions a project assumes are already there.

Please find selected PHP posts below. Topics vary from language snippets and workarounds to configuring PHP, Apache and phpMyAdmin for local development.