<story><title>PHP 7 Released</title><url>https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-7.0.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trm42</author><text>PHP 7 makes life a lot better for PHP devs in many ways but one awesome thing is it obsoletes bunch of out-of-date tutorials by finally removing the old Mysql extension \o&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;php.net&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;php.net&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I actually met a young aspiring web developer who still learned DB-access with mysql_* functions. I urged him to switch to a sane framework like Laravel. Oh boy he was happy in a month and learned bunch of best practices quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnq</author><text>&amp;gt; I urged him to switch to a sane framework like Laravel&lt;p&gt;...why didn&amp;#x27;t you taught him about PDO, so he can start with something more universal, not tied to one particular framework that happens to be popular nowadays?!&lt;p&gt;Then he can learn whichever OR&amp;#x2F;DM or DAL he might like need (Eloquent, Doctrine, Redbean, IdiORM&amp;#x2F;Paris etc.), and also be able to pop the hood and debug it when needed.&lt;p&gt;I never get it why so many otherwise-good PHP devs have their heads full of framework-specific knowledge and have a propensity to fall in love with heavy frameworks like Laravel, or worse, with leviathans like Symphony or Zend ...instead of playing to the language&amp;#x27;s advantages and using light-weight tools and libraries that would allow them to move faster.</text></comment>
<story><title>PHP 7 Released</title><url>https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-7.0.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trm42</author><text>PHP 7 makes life a lot better for PHP devs in many ways but one awesome thing is it obsoletes bunch of out-of-date tutorials by finally removing the old Mysql extension \o&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;php.net&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;php.net&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I actually met a young aspiring web developer who still learned DB-access with mysql_* functions. I urged him to switch to a sane framework like Laravel. Oh boy he was happy in a month and learned bunch of best practices quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superskierpat</author><text>My final project in my php class last year was way better than it would of been due to one simple website : &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phptherightway.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phptherightway.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Posted this before seeing the other comments suggesting it already, dope</text></comment>