Please help PHP as Future

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Sourabh
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Please help PHP as Future

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Hi everybody,

Please help me on this

I am working as a PHP developer from last 8 months.
I am really confused that should I continue with PHP?
I am still 22 so do have a long period to go, will PHP give me a sound future.
Can somebody help me on PHP as future.
Pls note ur replies. :banghead:

I am from INDIA.

Thanks and regards,
Sourabh
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Sourabh wrote:I am still 22 so do have a long period to go, will PHP give me a sound future.
PHP will not give you a sound future.

PHP is going to continue to be a useful language well into the future. There's no risk of it vanishing over night or anything. But relying on it to remain dominant forever is stupid and will give you problems at some stage in your career. There will be a time where PHP is not the right language for what you want to create.

Regardless of what you choose to do, if you want to work in software development for a long time you absolutely must learn other languages as well.

So, to build on my opening line - PHP alone will not give you a sound future; knowing a selection of languages will.

Which languages you choose to learn as well is completely up to you. Whichever ones best suit the sort of software that interests you I guess.
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Sourabh wrote:I am really confused that should I continue with PHP?
why?

Sourabh wrote:I am still 22 so do have a long period to go, will PHP give me a sound future.
As much as any language; probably more than perl and COBOL.
Sourabh wrote: Can somebody help me on PHP as future.
?
Sourabh wrote: I am from INDIA.
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I am still 22 so do have a long period to go, will PHP give me a sound future.
Programming is programming. Language is secondary to learning the art of programming.
If you learn to program well, picking up a new language is relatively trivial.
If you learn a dozen languages and can't program well in any of them your future will suck.
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Thank you everybody

I accept that programming logic is Primary

But Actually their arent any big or gud projects that I have worked on in PHP.
Might be due to my inexperience :| .
But will it give me a growth in future ?
Will I be only limited to web development?
And salary wise JAVA developers and .net developers have an leading edge? right:?:
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Sourabh wrote:And salary wise JAVA developers and .net developers have an leading edge? right:?:
Yes. That said though, there's much more to job satisfaction than just the money. Java tends to be used by bigger companies with very strict development processes - if you learn Java and get a job using it you'll have a lot less of a creative role than if you work on smaller projects in PHP for example. I would hate working on things where you're just coding exactly what you've been told to code. I prefer to get a more open specification and implement it in my own way instead.

Trust me, no amount of money in the world will make up for having to do a job you hate.
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Thanks everybody

It was my pleasure having an advice from u all. Thanks again.

Currently I am working on a project in PHP where MVC structure code has been written.
I have joined the team recently. I am finding the oops structure a bit difficult as I have worked on procedural code uptil now.
Any thing that you all can suggest that I should take care off. Or some measures that I should do for the same.
Some related links would be really helpful. I know this comes with practice but an valuable advice from you all will be great.


cheers :drunk:

Regards,
Sourabh
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