PHP package management history

Reading the great article Modern Javascript Explained For Dinosaurs made me thinking on how that would look like if we were to look at PHP’s history of package management and autoloading. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away PHP 5 was released. It had numerous improvements compared with PHP 4 (while keeping backwards compatibility) but was still lacking a proper method of including/loading packages from other files....

08 February, 2019 · 4 min · 766 words · Alexandru Bucur