User talk:Simon Matthew
What is the difference between Laravel and the PHP programming language?[edit]
A scale should be maintained between front-end and back-end development to implement a responsive website by a Laravel developer. Laravel and PHP are both back end development frameworks essential for maintaining the smoothness of the website. Hence, key factors such as scalability, testing, database support, and many more features help you choose an appropriate framework for your upcoming project.
Besides Laravel being written in PHP, both frameworks differ in their functionality. Laravel is an open-source framework along with HTML authentication and templating features. Being a server-side framework, it can build applications with pre-defined architectures, templates, logic, and portals.
It holds 0.37% of the market share among all the web frameworks and has more than 648,115 live websites globally. But PHP is more resourceful and assertive than Laravel while implementing a website. Here's how:
• Performance and Speed comparison
Laravel can have implications on the project's success and is recognized by professionals and hired Laravel developers as a slow language. But it can work efficiently if appropriately optimized, giving consent to applications to work under 20ms. PHP is fast, smooth, and more compatible than Laravel, as it can execute tasks at an enormous speed of 53.3 ms.
• Application architecture and scalability
Laravel follows the protocol of MVC ( Model view controller), which allows developers to split roles and work under a comfortable development process. This helps developers control logic simultaneously and create immutable back-end support for the website. In PHP, the view part extracts data from the model and triggers its execution for database connection.
• Ease of Testing
Many debugging tools are available to ensure a bug-free application. Laravel executes code in two levels known as Unit tests and feature tests to make the testing process more comfortable. In PHP, testing apps can be accessed through scalar type hinting, making the code more explicit. PHP can easily track all the data types returning from a function to an application.
