What is an SSL? how does SSL help SEO?

Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its currently deplored archetype, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic conventions intended to give correspondences security over a PC organization. … TLS, previously known as SSL, keeps the association between a web worker and a program encoded and private.

SEO is a must for E-commerce websites in these days, Search engines strongly recommended secure website(HTTPS) convention on their destinations. This may gives you better SEO results.

1.) SSL raises your website visitor.

Web browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft edge have visual warning, when visitor visit unsecure site(HTTP), it will be noticed by search engines’ artificial intelligence that a user spends less measure of time. It will decrease your site indexing on search engines. Google has a very strong AI for monitoring SEO.

2.) Do you want to avoid security issues and grow your SEO indexing?

It is highly recommended that the site has an SSL, you can install SSL on your site and set redirection HTTP to HTTPS( KLCWEB has an article to set HTTP to HTTPS redirection) https://klcweb.com/index.php/knowledgebase/17/Redirect-HTTP-to-HTTPS.html. It is not mandatory which SSL you are using. Either you can use free SSL such as CDN, Let’s Encrypt SSL as well these days many hosting providers give free SSL like – KLCWEB, or you can use paid SSL. This thing can avoid inconvenience and boost your SEO ranking on different kinds of search engines.

What is new in PHP8?

PHP 8.0 has a major update in the PHP language.
It contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in the type of the system, error handling, and consistency.

Let’s see difference between PHP7 and PHP8

Named arguments

Named arguments allow passing arguments to a function based on the parameter name, rather than the parameter position. This makes the meaning of the argument self-documenting, makes the arguments order-independent, and allows skipping default values arbitrarily.

PHP7PHP8
htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, ‘UTF-8’, false);htmlspecialchars($string, double_encode: false);

Attributes

This RFC proposes Attributes as a form of structured, syntactic metadata to declarations of classes, properties, functions, methods, parameters and constants. Attributes allow to define configuration directives directly embedded with the declaration of that code.

PHP7PHP8
class PostsController
{
    /**
     * @Route(“/api/posts/{id}”, methods={“GET”})
     */
    public function get($id) { /* … */ }
}
class PostsController
{
    #[Route(“/api/posts/{id}”, methods: [“GET”])]
    public function get($id) { /* … */ }
}

Constructor property promotion

Currently, the definition of simple value objects requires a lot of boilerplate, because all properties need to be repeated at least four times. Consider the following simple class:

PHP7PHP8
lass Point {
  public float $x;
  public float $y;
  public float $z;

  public function __construct(
    float $x = 0.0,
    float $y = 0.0,
    float $z = 0.0
  ) {
    $this->x = $x;
    $this->y = $y;
    $this->z = $z;
  }
}
class Point {
  public function __construct(
    public float $x = 0.0,
    public float $y = 0.0,
    public float $z = 0.0,
  ) {}
}

Union types

A “union type” accepts values of multiple different types, rather than a single one. PHP already supports two special union types:

PHP7PHP8
class Number {
  /** @var int|float */
  private $number;

  /**
   * @param float|int $number
   */
  public function __construct($number) {
    $this->number = $number;
  }
}

new Number(‘NaN’); // Ok
class Number {
  public function __construct(
    private int|float $number
  ) {}
}

new Number(‘NaN’); // TypeError

Top 5 E-commerce applications.

1. WOOCOMMERCE

WooCommerce is one of the best free e-commerce platforms that’s based on PHP programming language. It is an extension of WordPress CMS made by Jigoshop. WooCommerce has almost 21% global market share because of its ease of use. It can be easily installed even by a beginner while setting it up on any PHP Host is just a matter of seconds… If you are using Cloudways, WooCommerce can be installed with just a single click. you can also make a WooCommerce multi-vendor marketplace with powerful SEO features. As it is used by 380K retailers until now, it offers a huge repository of plugins and themes.

Of course, you will also need fast WooCommerce hosting for your Woo Commerce website to improve traffic.

2. JOOMLA

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Joomla has almost six percent market share that shows its moderate popularity among e-Commerce users. It is a content management system and mostly used by schools, churches, and individual e-commerce store owners. It has a thriving community of developers and designers and hosts more than 700,000 e-commerce stores and websites.

3. PRESTASHOP

Prestashop is a PHP-based e-commerce shopping cart and platform that is built on the Smarty template engine. Prestashop offers hundreds of features, including page-checkout, downloadable products, features cross selling, and one-page checkout. Prestashop is used in 160 countries and has been translated into 63 different languages. This has helped build Prestashop into a strong community around the world with more than 100,000 community members. Prestashop also comes with customizable themes and feature add-ons.

4. MAGENTO

Magento is an E-commerce platform that is free and built on open source technology. Magento is a content management system that provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system or E-commerce website for selling merchandise. Magento is completely Open source and scalable designed, Magento Enterprise Edition (EE) provides absolute or exclusive features both in backend and frontend to analytical techniques and improve administration options.

5.Shopify

Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell their products. Merchants can also sell their products in person with Shopify POS. Shopify started over ten years ago when our founder Tobi wanted to sell snowboards with his company at that time called Snowdevil. He quickly realized it was incredibly challenging to sell snowboards online without an easy-to-use e-commerce platform. So he decided to create it himself, and Shopify was born.