Prakash Kumar - Trainer

The problem is probably because of the slashes used, try with D:\vid\mov\ (use backward slash instead of forward slash), also do check the permissions for the file, is it read only, read-write etc. 

Hope it helps!

I still use vanilla PHP for create a website, but for company we use the latest Symfony 4 just because of simple, easy to use, enterprise ready and great for collaboration with other developers.

Back to pure/vanilla PHP. I use it because of:

1. Simple, yes it’s simple, quick, fast and easy to use. Especially if your project only a one-man-show project. You know everything and you control everything.
2. Fast, sometimes framework is just make everything complicated, in the term of learning curve. We have to learn the framework convention, standard, behaviour and configuration. But this is will be easy to tackle if you understand pure PHP, understand how HTTP works, how other component that used by the framework (composer, webpack etc etc)

Routing? I just create routing on Nginx/Apache/webserver level and throw it to a PHP script.

Multiple database access? I just use pure connection as many as I want. Usually in framework we have to learn first how to use multiple database connection, each framework sometimes use different way/configuration.

Caching? Just use any platform you want and install the PHP extension for it. No need play with composer install etc.

PHP Version upgrade? No problem, just yum update or apt-get upgrade and mostly it will run smooth because you know the code and if there is incompatibility just quickly found just only looking into error log. If using framework sometimes upgrading PHP version will not work. But it depend on your use case. Before upgrade you have to read the docs whether you use framework or vanilla PHP hahah.

But when I use vanilla PHP I just worry about security, since security is very depend on developer knowledge about the system.

So I think you are good if you can solve/create solution by using vanilla PHP or framework. But for me I love working with vanilla PHP when only me as a developer of the project hahahaha.

Don’t think Java, or in general any one language, as the final solution to your problems.

There was a time when JavaEE was considered as the best solution to your enterprise problems. Then came Spring and everybody went ga-ga over Spring in a short span of time. Now we have Spring Boot which is deemed as even better and simpler solution of Enterprise application problems.

In case of PHP and Java however, I believe there isn’t anything that PHP can do which Java can’t. If you are well verse in Java then you can do everything any PHP developer will do and much more than that. Focus on Java and you won’t need PHP.

I am a Python programmer who started learning about web programming using PHP. I probably have a say in this topic (even if I don’t hate PHP). Correct me if anything here is wrong or imprecise.

First, let’s say PHP and Python are languages designed for different purposes. While PHP is mostly useful in web programming, Python is a Swiss Army knife which can be used in a wide range of scenarios covering almost everything, including web programming. That is why they have different syntaxes, styles and libraries. Since Python is a multifunctional language, it looks more like other general programming languages than PHP, while PHP has some convenient syntaxes specifically for web programming. Those syntaxes may not cater to general programmers when they are used to the Python style, which is probably why people think PHP is ugly.

But to be honest, PHP was one of the mainstream languages for the web about 10 years ago, which is when I started learning web programming. If you have ever lived in that era, you know there were other similar languages such as ASP and JSP. That was a time when webpages started going from static to dynamic, and the most obvious way to do that is to embed dynamic content into the static one. That’s why people embed PHP, ASP and JSP in HTML pages. It’s not quite easy to imagine how Python can be embedded in such a way. After all, Python is not designed for that purpose.

Then you would probably wonder why Python plays a role in web programming nowadays. I think that’s because people now have modern ways of writing manageable, extensible and scalable web applications with the help from template engines, just as they were writing general applications. People now put more effort on the architect and application logic rather than page rendering. Those tasks are delegated to template engines. As a result, fully-featured languages get popular in web programming because they do better in other parts of the website and equally well (or better) even in page rendering. Developers no longer need to “embed” a dynamic language into a static HTML, which they think is a ugly way of doing things. But that is the very style of PHP, ASP and JSP. Considering the fact that more and more people now use Python as their first language to study programming, it’s understandable that they feel uncomfortable with something that looks drastically different.

But is that a hate? It probably depends. I’ve met programmers who publicly scoff at PHP. However, as a Python programmer, I don’t hate PHP even if most of my work is done with Python these days. I still use PHP if I want to serve something dynamic quickly. There doesn’t seem to be a quicker way of web prototyping. After all, PHP is designed for the web.

Language wars are stupid. Languages are designed for different purposes to satisfy people’s different needs. If a language becomes entirely useless, then programmers will migrate to other languages and that language will die. There doesn’t have to be a hate or a war. If a language is still alive, then it must be useful somewhere. Programmers shouldn’t be forced to use certain languages. Pick what you like and like what you pick.