Why remove PHP, and will there be a new course?

bloodmorphed · 2017-09-13 20:33:50 UTC

I’m curious as the why they removed PHP, I understand they removed a couple of others, but they intended to release an updated course of some, mainly jQuery.

The reason why I’m a bit concerned is because in my project, a PBBG, PHP is my go-to, or would have been. Ruby and Rails seems like it would be overkill for something like that. While I did finish my course before it got removed I still like going through and re-doing some of the courses.

stetim94 · 2017-09-14 06:34:45 UTC

the PHP course was outdated,full of bugs and vulnerabilities. So the logic choice was to remove it

Codecademy is always working on new content, who knows what the future will bring

aquaphoenix17 · 2017-09-14 12:06:10 UTC

According to Codecademy’s Community Manager, @oduffy…

PHP Sunset

The PHP courses were very old, buggy, and outdated. They were the least used courses on Codecademy by far, and declining in use all the time, just as PHP itself is declining in popularity in the web development world. Student demand was far higher towards making, for example, more content in other languages like JavaScript or offer all-new languages like C#, rather than continuing to maintain PHP. We have widely communicated that we are migrating from one learning infrastructure to another on a tight timeline, and converting our old courses to our new environments take a lot of investment. As a startup where we have to ruthlessly prioritize our resources, we had to prioritize other things right now over continuing to invest in a course that the data showed that relatively few people wanted. Continued support and maintenance of any course for us costs money, and hiring PHP specialists to rewrite a course costs more money, but the market for PHP is very small. So, the decision was clear – to sunset this course. We announced that this would happen early in 2017 for the summer, and dates were updated on our blog as we knew more about when these transitions would happen.