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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Kohana Framework

Here i will share one of solved question related to Kohana Framework development.. May be helpful for Kohana Developers.

Question: 

I'm implementing captcha for my project in Kohana. I have configured and created captcha which was already added to Kohana modules by client'e developer. I could display the captcha but, I'm not able to reset it. I created a reset link and using ajax created a new captcha. I tried to replace the image using JS, but the first image remains as it is.

How can I reset the captcha ?

Answer:

I have faced issue of changing image (but not for captch) using jQuery and to resolve it I have added below code:
 append code with your URL: '?' + new Date().getTime());

I will come with more QA Soon.

Zend Framework 2.0.0 STABLE Released!

Good News for PHP Community :-) Zend Framework 2.0.0 stable released after 5 years of Zend 1.0.0 release. Zend Framework 2.0.0 stable version released on 5th Septmber 2012.

Zend Framework 2 is for build applications on PHP 5.3 and latest versions.Zend Framework 2 uses 100% object-oriented code and utilises most of the new features of PHP 5.3, namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

Top 10 Hot PHP Frameworks- Zend Framework

Zend Framework is one of popular Framework in 2012. This is a Object Oriented Open Source Web

Application Framework. Zend Framework is Implemented in PHP5. Zend is licensed, so all contributers must sign an agreement. Zend Technology is Corporate Sponsers of Zend Framework.You need PHP 5.2.4 or Later version to work with Zend Framework

Features of Zend Framework

• Zend Framework components are PHP 5 object-oriented and E_STRICT compliant
  
• You can see Use-at-will architecture in Zend Framework with loosely coupled components and less interdependencies
  
• Model-View-Controller is Extensible, layouts are implementation supporting and PHP based
  
• In Zend Framework You can see multiple database systems & vendor Support
  
• Email composition and delivery
  
• Flexible caching sub-system
  

Dveloped By	Zend Technologies
Stable release	1.11.11- September 29, 2011
Preview release	2.0.0 Beta3 -March 2, 2012
Written in	PHP 5
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web application framework
License	New BSD license
Website	http://framework.zend.com/

Top 10 Hot PHP Frameworks- CakePHP Framework

CakePHP is one of the Top open source PHP web application framework. CakePHP make use of some ruby on rails concepts.

CakePHP Started in 2005. The main goal of CakePHP is to enable development in rapid and structured manner with flexibility.

There is an active developmentment team and community for cakephp improvement.

CakeFest. This is annual meet of CakePHP users. Here presentations, talks and discussions made on CakePHP. 

Here is some great feautures of CakePHP

• Friendly and Actiive Community Avilable to Discuss CakePHP Support
  
• Licensing is Easy
  
• Compatible with PHP 4 and PHP5
  
• CRUD Integrated for database interaction
  
• Architecture is MVC
  
• Built-in validation Avilable
  
• Fast and flexible templating is possible with CakePHP
  
• View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
  
• Works from any web site directory- Less or no Apache configuration involved
  
  

Developer(s)	Cake Software Foundation, Inc.
Stable release	2.1.1[1]/ March 26, 2012; 6 days ago
Development status	Active
Written in	PHP
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web application framework
License	MIT License
Website	http://cakephp.org

 

Benefits of IT Outsourcing

Outsourcing has become a very cost-effective way for most of the companies to appoint skilled persons for explicit IT jobs without having to commit to the important costs of maintaining in-house team. Outsourcing is found as a tactical shift that can allow companies to achieve a competitive edge.

It certainly has opened up opportunities for organizations to utilize skill sets and expertise that they normally would not be able to access without large investments. It has also become a rescuer to small and medium businesses which have to work with reserved capital.

IT outsourcing is mainly well-matched for companies which require a huge amount of technological assistance in a very short period of time.

Why Outsourcing?

All size service providing companies can experience periodic peaks and troughs in their demand workload that they can’t expend to staff up for on an on-going basis. In the above scenario, Service Providers may shift for outsourcing some of this work on a transactional (On-Demand) basis. There are many reasons why a company may opt to outsource a specific function of their business.

Most managers have the end-result in mind that they are going to save time and/or money. Other reasons include:

1. Resource Insufficiency Alleviated by Outsourcing

A particularly strong reason to outsource on-demand involves a shortage of a critical resource. This can be available employees that possess knowledge in a certain area (e.g. engineers), availability of material (e.g. Technology, infrastructure) and a labor force at a level and price that will offset the cost of higher prices alternatives.

2. Outsourcing caters the capability to concentrate On the Core Business

This yields the managers with the capability to concentrate on the core business issues rather than of getting distracted by needed, yet less significant concerns.

3. Outsourcing Returns Cost Savings

The prices of skilled IT personnel and/or technologies keep increasing and competition keeps forcing prices lower. If there is an outsourcing solution that can save your company money and overcomes the disadvantages of outsourcing, these areas should be investigated.

4. Outsourcing Provides Flexibility

Periodic demands put fluctuating & varying demands on the resources of the company. An on demand outsourcing agreement may provide the flexibility needed to stabilize these varying demands.

5. Reduce Overhead Costs Through Outsourcing

Some functions require a large spending of money just to get started. This expending could be avoided by contracting with a third party for that limited period of time.

Top 10 Hot PHP Frameworks- CodeIgniter Framework

CodeIgniter Framework

This is an application development framework /toolkit useful for people who want to build website in PHP Programming language.

Main use of CodeIgniter framework is

It help developers who want to build website fast and coders who start programming from scratch.

A rich set of libraries, a simple interface and logical structure are some highlights of CodeIgniter. So CodeIgniter  minimizes the amount of programming needed for a given task.

CodeIgniter framework is right for you if:

looking framework with a small footprint.
looking best performance.
looking best compatibility
Looking for framework with zero configuration.
No need of command line
No restrictive coding rules & Looking some framework helps clear documentation.

Latest vession CodeIgniter 1.5.4 is avilable.
Cost is Free
System Requirements :PHP version 4.3.2 or newer
CodeIgniter supported databases : MySQL,SQLite, MS SQL, MySQLi, Oracle,  Postgre, and ODBC

Official site-http://codeigniter.com