# PHP renaissance collection

Source: https://blog.fortrabbit.com/php-renaissance-collection
Created: 2012-10-02
Author: Frank Lämmer
Tags: opinion

> Some links on newish PHP.


> PHP development began in 1994 when the Danish/Greenlandic/Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf initially created a set of Perl scripts he called "**P**ersonal** H**ome** P**age Tools" to maintain his personal homepage. - Wikipedia

Since then a lot of spaghetti code has been written. PHP is the popular programming language everybody complains about. We see a new rise of sophisticated PHP programming. Here are some bits and pieces. 

### Technologies

  * PHP5.4 - the latest version with new features
  * [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) - Dependency Manager (See also [here](/handle-your-dependencies-with-php-composer))
  * [PSR](https://github.com/pmjones/fig-standards) - PHP standards
  * [Modern](http://proemframework.org/) frameworks based on [decoupled](https://github.com/illuminate) components

### Tweets

https://twitter.com/genexp/status/244534837598355456 https://twitter.com/nikita_ppv/statuses/215070429495304192 

### Further Readings

  * [PHP is much better than you think](http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-than-you-think) by Fabien Potencier >[HN](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198271)
  * [PHP the right way](http://www.phptherightway.com/) the definite guide by Josh Lockhart >[HN](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212568)
  * [Is this the PHP renaissance?](http://articles.firstclown.us/post/is-this-the-php-renaissance) by Joseph Erickson
  * [PHP Ecosystem Update](http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2012/07/php-ecosystem-update) "The Best Worst Language around" by Phil Sturgeon
  * [PHP 5.4 is here! What you must know](http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/php-5-4-is-here-what-you-must-know/) by Dejan Marjanovic on net.tuts
  * [Practical PHP 5.3](http://de.slideshare.net/nateabele/practical-php-53) slide from Nate Abele
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