6 Must Have Skills Required For Every PHP Developer


PHP development is hot right now, and the number of people working in PHP development is increasing day by day, but the required skill set seeking by every company is also increasing. If the individual is planning to make it as an independent PHP developer, they got to know more than just PHP. 

Similarly, even the business owners willing to hire their employee needs to check out the certain qualities in the developer regarding PHP such as:-


1) Database:-
Developer or freelance coder should have good hands-on command of creating and managing relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL. They should know the difference between relational and non-relational databases along with knowing the syntax of XML or JSON.


2) Business Communication:-
The developer has to carry out communication with clients so it is necessary that they should be able to communicate easily either verbally or through emails. Many developers have trouble with basic business communication. They should take professional help in case if needed.


3) Frontend Coding:-
It is not just enough to know how to write PHP code. They got to know how to properly code websites using HTML and CSS as well. Chances are likely that in the projects developer have to fix mistakes that designers make, so they should be aware of how to fix it and do it well. 
If the other languages are not known, then the developer is going to be outbid for many jobs by contractors who are much more well versed in web development.


4) System Admin And Networks:-
Today either Linux pr .NET power most of the Internet and knowledge of both language is the must. Installation and configuration of LAMP environment should be hands on.
In addition, knowledge related to cloud hosting and working idea about Amazon Web Services, Rackspace or providers and its APIs should be well known. Computer networks such as HTTP protocol, TCP/IP and programming sockets knowledge should be understand by the developer.


5) Virtualisation:-
Virtualization provides a fast, easy way to define, share virtual machine configuration, and reproduce them among the developers. With virtualization tools, having separated development environments on a per project basis is really nice to have, vagrant, and easy to set up with VirtualBox, etc.

6) Caching And Monitoring:-

Caching is also vital to know, reverse proxy, Redis, Varnish, Memcached and opcode caching are popular tools. Each of these tools needs to be known and their usage.
For monitoring, Nagios has emerged as the most popular tool. It monitors the entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, service, and business processes are functioning properly.

These six skills are essential for developers. Business owners before hire PHP developer, should go through the above guidelines and make sure they hire the correct candidate for the job.

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