Its really hard to do automation using PHP.. 😪..
Miss those days when I used to automate anything using Python..😢

What are you automating? 🧐

Unless it's selenium or tapping into windows applications, I would usually use php first.

its mostly related to web development . @C0D4

@fahimbinlokman that's my day job 🤷‍♂️

@C0D4 same for me .. but still its much easier to handle these things using python. 😊

Why would you ever use PHP for that?

@PrivateGER because I am doing php development on a raw php project . 😪

Bad idea. Use an actual scripting language. Take a look at Ruby. :)

@PrivateGER if I had options I would go for python . I am not a fan of ruby.😄

People that Love to complain about technologies they use or have to use are great coworkers. They always have some entertaining new "shitty technology is shitty" story Up their sleeves :)

@don-rager true that . 😂

@PrivateGER Php is not bad for automation, but Ruby pretty king on my list for that!

I've used PHP, python and perl for automation and never had any issues.

Know your task, don't blame the language.

What about Go? It's designed for devops and has concurrency in mind

I also remember my troubles trying to automate Selenium using Apache Spark. 16 headless chrome browsers running over 4 machines to hammer through a few thousand pages.

Have you taken a look at Symfony Console as well as the DomCrawler components? They help quite a bit...

well.... so do I, hate php so much!.
I'd better use Ruby or Java instead of PHP.

But... what are we automating?

@bitches I've never heard of anyone using java for classic cli automation tasks
Wouldn't that be a huge pain to setup and run?