What is PHP?
In this section we will discuss about PHP and will try to understand "What is PHP?" and "Why it is used for web development?".
PHP is one of the most used open source server-side scripting language, which runs on almost all the platform. PHP is cross-platform and it run on many platform including Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Solaris.ADS_TO_REPLACE_1
PHP was originally developed by Rasmus Lerdof in the Year 1995 to collect the website's basic data. PHP was then re-written by two Israelis developers Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans; and released with the current name (PHP). The Hypertext Preprocessor is most acceptable name of PHP. The current version of PHP is PHP 5. PHP 5 is most advanced PHP with many features such as OOP's and Java support.
The PHP 5 has got following advanced features:
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The PHP Hypertext Processor is powerful language for development of web based applications such as dynamic websites, Web portals and Intranet applications. It is also a competitor of other programming languages:
But due to simplicity and easy syntax, PHP is most popular amongst the seasonal developers. The PHP learning time is also very less, you can learn PHP in a week's time and start developing the dynamic web applications.
Another reason of PHP popularity is it's easily availability of cheap hosting environment. The PHP support is provided by almost all the Linux web hosting companies. The hosting cost of the PHP based application is must cheaper then .NET or Java based application. PHP allows the developers to quickly develop the website. Once the website is developed they can find Linux shared or dedicated host and host the website very quickly.ADS_TO_REPLACE_3
Lot's of PHP libraries
There are many open-source libraries are available for the PHP programmer's. They can take advantages of these libraries to develop the applications quickly. Most of these open-source libraries are included with the PHP core distribution build. Additional libraries can be added to the PHP easily. Since the source code of PHP is available you can compile to suit your requirement.
Most used PHP libraries are PHP GD, PHP Image magic, PHP PDO, PHP ClibPDF, PHP cURL, PHP Gettext etc.ADS_TO_REPLACE_4
How learn PHP?
Learning PHP is easy, you can learn the PHP programming concepts easily. Learn PHP from the following urls:
a) Learn from our http://roseindia.net/php/starting-php.shtml tutorial at http://roseindia.net/php/starting-php.shtml. ADS_TO_REPLACE_5
b) Learn PHP MySQL at http://www.roseindia.net/tutorial/php/phpdatabase/php-mysql-introduction.html and http://www.roseindia.net/tutorial/php/phpbeginning/index.html.
c) Learn PHP Zend Framework at http://www.roseindia.net/tutorial/php/zendframework/index.html
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