Things You Should Know Before Hiring A PHP Developer

“It’s always cost-effective and secured to go with PHP development and convert your business ideas into reality. Experienced PHP developer can take you to the next level with advance technique. So it’s your time to cross check various aspects, like developer’s knowledge, ability, experience and the hiring process of company/agency while you are going to hire a developer”.

As you know, PHP is one of the most popular and robust framework to develop beautiful and user-friendly websites and applications for any size of business. 

The demand of PHP developers are growing now days and their numbers are increasing also. In the mean time you need to choose the right developer for your business. 

“The best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers”

– Robert. L. Glass

It’s not advisable for you if you will throw money according to your requirement and discuss with him/her at the end for your output. You need to have few idea/documentation, so that your developer can make it live with code. A good developer has very well future vision and he/she develop website and applications which can be accommodate many of future changes and updates. 

So, don’t be so aggressive or hurry while you are hiring someone. Here in this article we will cover the core things of a developer before or at the time of hiring. 

1. Technical Expertise:

A PHP developer must have wide knowledge on various technical aspects like content management systems (CMS), Java Script, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3 and Ajax etc and should have exposure to the latest technology trends. Must have expertise in understanding your requirements.

As a webmaster or entrepreneur you must have goal and what you want to implement in your website or application, but don’t know the exact timeframe, budget and scope of work. In this situation an experience developer can be of help and can manage within your budgets. 

No doubt you will get thousand of PHP Development Company in Google search but choosing the right one is the key; you can measure them from their previous works.

2. Industrial Knowledge

An ideal PHP developer expected to be on top of the latest technology trends relating to website designing, development and industry experience. Your developer must be aware about, what is going on the industry and how to catch or impress the target audience. Attractive, friendly and engaging information are much needed to grab the attention of users for eCommerce or any other websites. 

3.  Time Management

Time Management in delivering projects within a specific timeframe is one of the most important skills of a good PHP developer. Managing time not only delivers quality output but also estimating and setting up expectation is of most important. This helps keeping up a brand name of company. Sometimes developers handle multiple projects at same time and fail to meet the expectation.

4. Work Portfolio

It’s very important for you to check the PHP Developer company portfolio or previous PHP work before planning to take PHP development service. Portfolio gives clear picture about developer’s previous work and how good are they in the domain.

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Top 10 Techniques to Minimize Security Vulnerabilities in PHP Application Development

At the time, when you are planning for a new website or application for your business, the chances of using PHP is higher than any other frameworks.

And the reason is pretty clear – its way more dynamic than other platforms or most of it.

PHP is highly popular because of its features to maximize the performance and has ability to develop complex dynamic websites, faster.

The below are some of the reason why ‘PHP’is becoming or has become one of the most preferred development platforms by developers, agencies and tech giants;

•          PHP is damn-User Friendly! When put into comparison among other scripting languages, PHP is the most user-friendly platform…
•          PHP is Flexible! ...
•          PHP is Dynamic! ...
•          PHP is Low Cost! ...
•          PHP Hast Fast Data Processing! ...
•          PHP is Open Source! …
•          PHP is High Performing! ...
•          PHP is Able to Cross Platforms!

According to w3techs survey, 83% websites are using PHP as server side programing language.  

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Why You Need An 'Effective' Project Collaboration Tool!

The next big question after big bang theory is “Do I need a Project Collaboration Tool” and if Yes – what is an ideal project collaboration tool.

Before I answer you the big question, ask the below questions to yourself;

How much time do you spend on excel in documenting your, and your team’s tasks (with the vulnerability of missing out the timelines)?

How many times do your email your colleagues or a member for a single task?

Who is actually working on the task your assigned yesterday to the marketing team?

What is the expected date of delivery of the presentation, for internal verifications?

Don’t tell me you’re maintaining an excel sheet or a notepad or a post it note to do these stuffs!  

Time to adapt to the change.

Project collaboration tools are the best alternatives to keep track of your projects, task, time management, resource management, milestones setting, file management, invoice generation, sync emails and many more – all under a single roof. 

Near about 50% of entrepreneur and business owners are using collaboration tool but the next big question is – is it worth it?

My Answer: it is worth more than anything in your business resource. 

You might or might not be using a project collaboration tool! 

Bur before using, you might think once–which is the ideal project collaboration tool and what it should consist?

It doesn’t matter if you opt for a paid, free or customize one as per your business domain. But it’s important to choose the ideal one that’s right for your business. 

People, who are not yet using any smart collaboration software’s and maintain all their stuffs (from email conversations to resource management) manually - approximately, they are doing 15% - 25% repeated work daily (i.e., around wastage  of 3-4 hours a week). 

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PHP Development and Upcoming Trends in 2017

PHP is used by 82.4% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know.

                                              - W3Techs.com

At the end of 2016,PHP 7.1 has come up with latest improvised features like,

• Nullable types 
• Iterable pseudo-type 
• Void return type 
• Class constant visibility modifiers 
• Catching multiple exceptions types 
• Square bracket syntax for list() and the ability to specify keys in list()

 

Improvement in speed and maturity of PHP libraries are the areas where PHP has improved a lot.

“Version 7 and 7.1 of PHP are not the revolutionary changes that we got in the later 5.x versions. They are however a proof that PHP has stabilized, matured, and does have a predictable path forward.”

Cal Evans, Technical Manager at Zend Technologies and godfather of the PHP community

                                                                              (Source: Cloudways)

Entire PHP community is very much happy with the new updated version as all the drawbacks has been removed that were present in the previous version(s) and this helps to establish a new era for enterprise level projects.

Most of the principal companies were not interested with PHP because of its speed.But in 2016; it has spread to millions with its improved featurettes. 

I want to develop web applications using PHP. Am I going the right way? Is this the right platform!

Let me tell you some important features, why you will chose PHP for web development and what are the upcoming trends of PHP in 2017.

1. Equipped with the latest features(stated above)
2. Open Source, Free, and User-friendly. So, you don’t pay a dime.
3. Compatible to all the OS and Servers
4. Includes multiple PHP frameworks
   • MVC coding pattern
   • Object Oriented Programming
5. 5Security and Cross Platform

ProbablePHP Trends In 2017

Let’s have a look at the probable PHP trends in 2017,

1. With the improvement in several important factors like speed and other, PHP 7 may dominate in all aspects of PHP development.
2. The update and release of major frameworks versions like Symfony, Laravel and Yii which are running with the older version of PHP. These frameworks may completely clinch with PHP 7 important features.
3. Web hosting service providers may upgrade to PHP 7 with the increase popularity and features.

PHP 7 is the way to go

Comparing to the upgrade features, I think, PHP 7 will be the primary framework for everyone in 2017. Re-engineered features with compatible to all trusted data source can really help PHP developers, worldwide.
It increases websites security level adding up speed that gives better user experience. 

Share your thoughts with comments below about PHP 7. Features and updates that we might have missed, we will surely put it up in our next article. 

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