PHP 2017
The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey in 2018

PHP

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The PHP questions were only shown to the developers who chose PHP as one of their three primary programming languages.

Which version of PHP do you regularly use?

Which frameworks do you regularly use, if any? (%)

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PHP developers are more likely to host their app and services on private servers and less likely to put them on Azure and Google Cloud Platform, compared to the developer population in general.

Which editor/ IDE do you use the most?
Which testing frameworks do you regularly use, if any?

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Containerized environments have become more popular than the virtualized ones: in 2017 the share was 18% vs. 29%, but this year they are 30% vs. 22%.

Every other PHP developer uses XDebug.

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C#
Ruby
Kotlin
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