The Programming Language - PHP
posted September 13, 2007 - 4:48amAre you known about PHP and what is PHP?
PHP stands for 'Hypertext Pre-Processor'. It is server side scripting/programming language. Using php tool you can create dynamic web pages. PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same
way you normally create regular HTML pages.PHP is more faster than other programming languages like ASP and JSP. PHP can be compiled and optimized to make it run even faster by using the Zend Optimizer. Zend optimizer is integrated with PHP. PHP language is most widely used for web, internet, e-commerce and business-to-business projects.
What is the use of PHP?
The great advantage of PHP is that it is cross-platform and runs everywhere! It runs on Linux, Windows 95/98/NT, Windows 2000, Solaris,HPUX and all flavors of unix. It runs on many web-servers like Apache, Microsoft IIS, etc.It is very easy language to study and understand. It also more compatible with database like SQL,MySQL etc. The another advantage of PHP is free language and available everywhere. It is open source so it is free to download.
It is extremely easy to use and you can develop very complex web/e-commerce applications very rapidly in a very short period of time.It has object oriented features like Java, C++, PERL and "C" languages. PHP language is a combination of best features from Java, C++, PERL and C.
By combination of PHP code, HTML/DHTML and JavaScript anyone can develop a grate ecommerce website. So PHP is the real gem of all the scripting/programming languages.
Why use PHP?
PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.).It is easy to learn.It is very flexible language as it supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc.).It runs efficiently on the server side. And it is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.).Another big reason to use php is that, php is more secure than other languages. Anyone can not the view source of any php page because it is executed on the server side. So php coding remains safe.
So by reviewing all above points we can say that php is more reliable, secure, flexible, faster and easy to use.

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