by Jini M R (Software Programmer, Excellone Technologies)
PHP confirmed its position as one of the fastest growing technologies for the creation of dynamic websites. Designed specifically for the Web; its accessibility, reliability and performance capacities make an impact on its users.
The factors that have influenced the growth of PHP :
- Significant development of server-based applications
- PHP’s ability to enable quick development of high-performance
- Web applications
- Open-source technology as well as Linux Web servers and Apache server software acquired great popularity.
Features
- The incredible popularity of PHP has inspired many developers to create large and complex applications using the scripting language. The main obstacle to be overcome, was the fact that previous PHP scripts were interpreted line by line upon each execution. It was not the best solution for large and complex scripts, particularly when loops or function calls were involved. As a result, scripts are now entirely compiled before they are executed, eliminating repetitive interpretation and ultimately resulting in substantially faster execution periods.
- Web server flexibility PHP had been developed for use in conjunction with the Apache web server. Now PHP is compliant with several other popular web servers such as Netscape Enterprise Server, the Microsoft IIS server and Zeus.
- Session management: PHP frees the developer from the sole reliance of cookies for maintaining session data.
- Database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Informix etc. can be used as back end to PHP.
Advantages of PHP Programming
I. SPEED: The execution speed of a web applications is very important as it cannot afford to slow down the rest of the machine, either. PHP integrates well with other software, especially under UNIX. It can be very fast, because it is a thin wrapper around many operating system calls.
II. STABILITY: No application is absolutely bug free. One alternative is to make it harder for bugs to survive for long. PHP developers can do this using their own resource management system. They have a sophisticated method for handling variables by making it intrinsically a robust system.
III. SECURITY: PHP offers various security levels which can be set in the .ini file to defend the system from attacks of users, both as programmers and as surfers.
IV. SIMPLICITY: Another important advantage of PHP is its simplicity. Even HTML coders can integrate PHP programming straight into their pages.
Further Advantages of PHP Programming include
- Ease of writing interfaces to other libraries.
- Several HTTP server interfaces.
- Large amount of database interfaces like MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Informix, and PostgreSQL etc.
- PHP programming is similar to C / JavaScript and Java.
- PHP is extendible.
- PHP will run on (almost) any platform.
- The PHP Extension and Add-on Repository.
- PHP is Open Source.
PHP programming which had a humble beginning, has now turned to be a major player in software development. It was successful in launching fast and simple scripting language that could work seamlessly with many other components.
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