Is PHP Dead ?
Well not at all. PHP has gone through a very long journey from a simple language which serves web pages to a object oriented language which now is used to build Enterprise Applications.
I have seen clients using PHP based applications like Drupal, Wordpress, Magento, Suite CRM, Sugar CRM etc. to serve real businesses. I have also seen clients using Laravel for their web applications.
The modern frameworks like Symfony and Laravel have made PHP a fantastic ground for building enterprise applications. Its all objected oriented now and these applications follow the more common terminologies like components which modularises the huge enterprise applications. Like NPM for Node these applications now too have composer which has a huge community as well through Packagist which could be used to install packages.
The majority of web market is still dominated by PHP. Companies like Slack, Facebook etc use PHP for running their businesses.
Also, if you are a freelancer, PHP offers a plethora of opportunities. When it comes to hosting PHP applications can be hosted anywhere. Its a cheap LINUX server thats all you need.
Although Php works great with Mysql, it can be used as well with nosql databases such as Mongodb.
Hope this helps.
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