The fastest growing technology in the world of web development is PHP.
The article gives details about PHP, reasons for its popularity and why
it recommended to use.
PHPPHP stands for Pre Hypertext Processor. In simple terms, it is
server side scripting language and it is used to create static and
dynamic web sites. PHP is also an embedded language and we can embed
PHP code with HTML and JavaScript to create a dynamic web site.
Why it is popular?It is an open source language so you do not need to
buy any license or copy to install PHP on your machine. The second
reason is that the PHP community is very vast and solution for any
technical problem can be found on internet, forum or blog.
Is it secured?Yes, PHP is very much secured and PHP.net is keep
releasing the latest version and updates for the PHP for latest
security updates and bugs being removed?
What about the database Although it can work with any DBMS but it
performs best with MySql and most codes are developed considering MySql
in mind.
What is latest update Currently PHP 5 is very popular, however version
6 is launched too and soon the stable version will come. In PHP 5, few
functions are marked with warning. The warning is that, they will
deprecated in version 6. Deprecation means they will not work in those
new versions. So if you are developing the new code, it is better that
you code the site considering PHP 6 standard.
In MySql, MySql 5.2 is very popular and currently working along with
PHP. The main reason why PHP is so popular is for the online help.
Since it is an open source scripting language, you normally get the
solution for all of your issue from blogs, online forums and other
experts opinion.
For more information is official website for the PHP where you can find
all the latest updates, bugs report and functionality guidelines for
same. Based on PHP language, there are number of CMS like wordpress,
drupal, Joomla and shopping cart CMS like magento, zen cart, xCart are
developed and very popular. You can develope the website also and along
with that you can also install extra plugins to utilize all your
requirements.
PHP is not only the present but also has very strong future and that is
the reason why you should use php to develop your web site.
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