Yes absolutely. Payhere is designed to be a super simple payments solution, think Stripe for non-technical individuals. Anyone can setup a payment form for a subscription, one-off payment or donations in minutes.
I’ve been building https://payhere.co/ a payments platform to help entrepreneurs and small businesses sell more products and memberships online.
My agency alternatelabs.co uses Rails for nearly all our projects as we think it’s still the most productive framework for building most businesses in 2018.
// PHP is the easiest to find hosting for, to setup and to learn.
If you don't have PHP installed, it's probably the hardest to setup, much easier to install Java, Ruby (rvm), node.js.
To learn, the easiest language is the one you already know. I do believe PHP is a good language to start on if you have had no prior development knowledge, starting out with C like syntax is always a good idea, but certainly would like to thing complete newcomers would prefer the weaker more dynamic syntax of Ruby / Python.
Hosting wise, yes pretty much every server on the web hosts PHP, with the rise of platform as a service though, PHP lacks behind the other platforms offerings because of it's non-existant package management. PaaS is definitely getting a lot bigger, and takes all of the effort out of server administration, for newcomers I'd recommend PaaS, the learning curve for Sys admin is too high at the start. And in reality, heroku is one of the best offerings, just pushing up a Java app with a small dependencies file and everything gets installed for you, love to see PHP do that in the future, but in reality it just doesn't.
- PHP is still the best at generating web pages.
What?!
- PHP offers all the tools needed to build strong
applications (PHPUnit, xDebug, XHProf, ...)
Testing - PHP is probably the worst language I've ever written tests in, it is horrible compared to Ruby, Java, Node, Objective-C, C#. Other languages provider far better testing tools and debuggers. xDebug is horrible to setup compared to other languages where the debugger just works.
- PHP is not as bad as people like to say.
I agree with this point for sure, PHP 5.3 copes with most normal object oriented stuff, but so do all the other good languages for writing web applications, only the other languages have fantastic implementations, not "not as bad as people think" implementations. If this is one of your main points in recommending a language, that is shameful.