PHP’s declarative programming approach can help bridge the gap between low-code development and large-scale applications, allowing quick PHP code to be used as application modules and libraries.

Generally speaking, programs written in interpreted languages such as PHP tend not to run as quickly as languages, such as C or C++, that have been compiled beforehand into machine language byte code.

It includes a highspeed code cache, which makes nearly every PHP run faster – sometimes by a factor of 10.