10 Best PHP Development Companies to Watch out For in 2020

PHP is favored in the web and software development world, and for many reason. The platform is robust and ready to provide users with rich and unique solutions. However, exploiting the advantages of this platform is not something to be taken lightly. If you want to do it right, you must hire a proficient PHP developer.

Over the last couple of years, PHP development companies have been experiencing unprecedented growth. Due to the increased number of amazing PHP tools, as well as the upsurge in talent in the field, the number of companies that offer such services has reached thousands. This makes finding a great one a real challenge.

To assist you in solving this, we have created a list of the 10 best PHP development companies who render quality services and offer solid pricing.

Webchain

WebChain

Our mission is to give each individual or business the same resources and tools that larger companies enjoy. All of the efforts and services are geared towards growing the client’s business. Webchain helps customers grow their business with web, mobile application development and devops services.

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PHP Design Patterns: Factory Pattern

PHP Factory Pattern

One of the most commonly used design patterns is the factory pattern. In this pattern, a class simply creates the object you want to use. Consider the following example of the pattern in PHP:

<?php
class Automobile
{
    private $vehicleMake;
    private $vehicleModel;

    public function __construct($make, $model)
    {
        $this->vehicleMake = $make;
        $this->vehicleModel = $model;
    }

    public function getMakeAndModel()
    {
        return $this->vehicleMake . ' ' . $this->vehicleModel;
    }
}

class AutomobileFactory
{
    public static function create($make, $model)
    {
        return new Automobile($make, $model);
    }
}

// have the factory create the Automobile object
$veyron = AutomobileFactory::create('Bugatti', 'Veyron');

print_r($veyron->getMakeAndModel()); // outputs "Bugatti Veyron"

This code uses a factory to create the Automobile object. There are two possible benefits to building your code this way; the first is that if you need to change, rename, or replace the Automobile class later on you can do so and you will only have to modify the code in the factory, instead of every place in your project that uses the Automobile class. The second possible benefit is that if creating the object is a complicated job you can do all of the work in the factory, instead of repeating it every time you want to create a new instance.

Using the factory pattern isn’t always necessary (or wise). The example code used here is so simple that a factory would simply be adding unneeded complexity. However if you are making a fairly large or complex project you may save yourself a lot of trouble down the road by using factories.

Top 10 PHP Tips for Developers

1) Go OOP

If you have not yet entered the realm of Object Oriented Programming, then you are at a disadvantage, and you are falling behind fast.

OOP is essentially a method of programming with the use of classes, or Objects, which tie like things together, remove the need for repetition of code and perform the basic tasks of production very simply. Objects are essentially classes that collect a bunch of functions together and wrap them in a wrapper that can be reused over and over again without the need to rewrite functionality or procedures every time you need to do something.

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Top 5 Features Every Developer Needs to Know about PHP 7

PHP 7 has some awesome features, let’s break down exactly how different PHP 7 is, and what that means for developers.

1. PHP 7 Performance

PHP 7 is built on the NGPHP—’Next Generation PHP’—branch, created by Dmitry Stogov, Xinchen Hui, and Nikita Popov. Now, it’s referred to as the Zend 3 engine, distinguishing it from the Zend 2 it replaces.

Zend 3 refactors the Zend engine to use more compact data structures, fewer heap allocations and deallocations, and improved cache locality. It retains near-complete language compatibility, so the new Zend Engine 3 is all upside.

Zend 3 provides radical acceleration: doubling or even tripling speedscompared to PHP 5 is not unheard of, and can be achieved without changing a line of code as well as in all new code going forward.

Key Web functionality is radically accelerated with PHP 7, including WordPress.

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Should I use PHP for my project?

PHP is a general-purpose, server-side scripting language, the relative simplicity and versatility of which, at the time, has arguably been one of the main reasons for the boom of web development as we know it today and why PHP is used in so many projects.

First appearing in 1994, PHP — recursively short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor — now powers innumerable websites, from the smallest blogs to some of the most popular web services in the world. On github there are more than 50 000 projects developed in PHP.

While, once upon a time, PHP may have been criticized by some programmers, the current version (stable version 7.1.4) has an incredible improvement over those times, and PHP has grown into a language that can easily compete with others, like Javascript or Ruby, for back-end supremacy. Its frameworks provide good front-end support as well.

PHP was originally used embedded in HTML, but, nowadays, it is mostly used in the form of (frameworks). It is the 4th most active repository programming language on Github, trailing only Javascript, Java, and Python, and, as such, it offers a very wide selection of pre-made libraries you might need for your project. The most important players, however, are PHP Frameworks:

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