To celebrate of "25 Years of PHP" at php[world], we're bring back the php[architect] Impact Awards to recognize the projects, tools, services, and people which have made a significant contribution to PHP development and the community in general.
This year, I've reached out to magazine contributors to identify nominees in four categories:
- Best Tool or Service: When your writing code, designing classes, preparing tests, or managing your application what are the tools and services which make the tasks faster, less error-prone or less stressful? If you were stuck on a deserted island writing PHP code ... which would you want to have with you?
- Best Framework or Application: Framework and Application let us proverbially stand on the shoulders of giants. By collaborating, we avoid re-inventing the wheel and can focus on addressing the unique aspects of the problems we face. What framework or PHP-based application do you turn to when starting a new project?
- Best Developer Experience: Beyond PHP, what other services, APIs, cloud or hosting provider, stand above the rest as easy-to-work with for solving the problems you face. They may be part of a framework or platform mentioned earlier by solving a particular problem really elegantly.
- Lifetime Achievement: please nominate any person who's made a significant contribution to PHP. This could be a contribution to the language (internals) or the PHP project more broadly (documentation, QA, etc). Or it could be someone who has contributed to PHP's adoption, education, and broader community.
