Why! Oh why! ...is it still PHP

tomas@tomastechlab.com (Tomas) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:18:12 +0200

You know that moment when you mention your tech stack at a developer meetup and you see people’s eyebrows raise? Yeah, that’s what happens when I say I still work with PHP daily, especially for my Shopware projects.

It’s been over a decade since I first encountered Shopware 4.2 back in 2014. I was working on a migration project for a mid-sized retailer that was just acquired by a larger company and now they wanted to use SSO for their main website and for their shop customers. Nobody called it SSO back then but it effectively was just another SSO system. At the time, choosing PHP felt natural - it was (and still is) the language powering a huge portion of the web, and Shopware was built on it.

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Why! Oh why! ...is it still PHP