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It was early 2000, I was learning how to set up a Guestbook on my Geocities web page. It introduced me to PHP and the world of web development.
I immediately fell in love with making dynamic websites and started learning PHP more seriously. I went to a bookstore nearby and bought a book on PHP Programming. I was learning but it didn’t make any sense. Then one day I saw a newspaper ad for a 10-hour PHP training and decided to enroll. On the first day in 2nd hour when the instructor set up a local development environment and ran the Hello World, everything fell into place and I then saw how I was failing to piece together the practical aspects of my learning from the book.
In 2004 I came across WordPress, a Content Management System that showed me a better way to develop dynamic content websites. I started tinkering with my local WP installation and learned a lot. It was 2006 when someone hired me to build his WordPress website. My first gig made me $75. And I was set to make a business out of my self-learned journey of web programming.
During university, I built a few websites for my college in Drupal which waived my tuition. My college project was a Social Network built on top of Symfony framework which despite having a steep learning curve, I was able to get a functioning project.
At my first job after college in 2010, the company that hired me used CodeIgniter as their tech stack. I was quite impressed by its simplicity and was able to make a code change in a project that had been in development for the last 6 months on the very 2nd day of the job. I left the job after 8 months and started my own agency where I worked on CodeIgniter and a CMS based on it called PyroCMS for nearly 5 years.
I moved to the US in 2015 and worked on a CakePHP project for a client for 3 months. Later, I got a full-time job in a startup and built their multi-site platform on Yii2. One of my friend has his startup stack Yii2 as well and I helped him build some vore features too. I helped another friend finish up his Joomla website. After 3 years in the US, I returned back to Nepal and worked on multiple projects in Laravel & WordPress.
Then for nearly 5 years, I worked full-time as a PHP backend developer.
During all these years, I never felt a shortage of projects to work on, never had to look for clients, and never had a second thought about the PHP ecosystem and the community being toxic or unfriendly.
I am still on top of the PHP stack and its development. The online community feels like a second home and the opportunities for learning and making money are endless. I’m forever grateful to everyone in this community for their contributions and for making the PHP ecosystem so vibrant and welcoming. Cheers to the upcoming many years of development and progress. Thank you PHP community for everything.
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