PHP Development

What is PHP

PHP is short for Hypertext Preprocessor. It’s a strong and dynamic server side scripting language which helps in developing highly responsive and dynamic websites.

It is used as a general purpose programming language and also as a server side scripting language.

PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994.

Why PHP

PHP is one of the best options out there for web development mainly because of these reasons:

• It has a huge developer community who are constantly contributing towards its open source
• Thousands of pre written function in its library
• Constant upgrades
• Extremely popular language among web developers
• Almost 80% of the website development is done using PHP
• PHP has powerful frameworks built for web developers who require simple and elegant tool kit to develop full-featured web applications

Flexibility of PHP

PHP is an interpreted language meaning that its code is usually processed by an interpreter which is implemented as a module in the web server.

PHP can be used in combination with javaScricpt to carry out different tasks ranging in complexity.

PHP can also be embedded in HTML code or can be used with different web content management systems. In addition PHP can also be used with web template systems of different kind.