How PHP Is Better Than Its Alternatives?

This article may useful for PHP Programmers who remember their old golden core PHP Programming Days. Now a days place of  Core PHP Programming is occupied by Content management systems and Frameworks :-)  This article is an old article written by me in 2005. I remember i refereed some text books to prepare this article. At that time PHP 4.x was released.So this is dedicated to PHP Programmers :-)

What is the need of PHP in today's world? The days of static HTML websites with few CGI scripts are over. Today's websites must be dynamic. Everyone needs dynamic websites with top functionalists. So biggest decision facing the creator or developer is choosing best technology platform from hundreds of technologies.

Let us look at some technologies similar to PHP.

Perl has adapted well to being a CGI solution and it is used to build complex web solutions. Micro soft provides active server pages with Internet information server. Middle-ware like Allie Cold Fusion is another solution. We can also find lists of hundreds of web technologies, costing thousands of dollars.

Why PHP is better than all of these alternatives?

Here is an overview

PHP is Best

PHP is faster to code and execute. The same PHP code runs unaltered on different web servers and different operation systems.

Open source

PHP is free. So anyone can visit PHP official website and download complete source code. There is very little risk in trying PHP, and its license allows the code to be used to develop applications with no royalties.

PHP runs on all major operating system platforms. It is designed to integrate with the Apache web server. Apache is one of popular free web server on the internet.

PHP also works with other web servers including Microsoft Internet information server.

Modifiable

PHP is specially designed to allow for future extension of functionality. It is coded in C and provides a good Application Programming Interface. Also rich set of functions available in PHP are evidence that they are often do.

PHP language was written for web page creation. Pearl, Java and C are also good programming languages for driving web applications. But why PHP is even better than these is the ease of communication with web experience. Application built on PHP is rapidly and easily developed because the code is encapsulated in the web pages themselves.

Support

Support for PHP is free and readily available. Questions to the mailing list are answered within hours.

Custom bug tracking system on the PHP system shows each problem along with the resolution.

Popularity

Internet services providers find PHP to be an alternative way to allow their customers to code web applications without the risks exposed by CGI.

Large number of PHP Developers, Freelance Programmers, Onshore and Offshore Development and Outsourcing Firms are available worldwide.

Websites coded in PHP will have the option of moving from one host to another as well as a choice of programmers to add functionality.

Coding skills developed in other structured languages can be applied to PHP. PHP takes inspiration from both Perl and C. So experienced Perl and C programmers learn PHP very quickly.

Conferences and Releases

Regular Conferences are one more strong backbone for Developers. You can find various conferences date and places at official website of PHP.

Recently, PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 released. As web technology grows, PHP also updated and release with new functionality.

These are some major reasons which made PHP better than its alternatives.

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