How do you deal with Nginx/Apache updates given they release more frequently than PHP?
You can always host at a managed hosting provider who will take care of this for you.
I don't. We just finished upgrades from 7.4 to 8.0. PHP 8 was release November 26, 2020 - two years ago!
> How do you deal with Nginx/Apache updates given they release more frequently than PHP?
My managed host deals with that.
> You can always host at a managed hosting provider who will take care of this for you.
I have a "managed" host and none of them will make your code compatible. It requires a software engineer and lots of unglamorous work.
Can't speak for Nginx, but Apache updates very rarely screw with syntax, and those are always major releases. And for Apache, "syntax" just means config files.
PHP screws with syntax frequently, and often on point releases. And PHP is a programming language; syntax is the whole point of PHP.
This.
The PHP developers are trying to turn PHP into a decent, fairly modern language. This has involved quite a lot of breaking changes in the last few years, and upgrading website code just so it works with the latest version (i.e. no actual improvements) isn't appealing work.