PHP Advantages
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:06PHP is a useful programming language because it allows for advanced programming and is easy to integrate with web pages. Another and of PHP is that the language interfaces well with MySQL, a popular type of online database. MYSQL is a commercial grade database application that is made available free under the Open Source to someone. Another and of PHP is that it is Open Source Code. The actual code that is PHP is available to the public for free, while the source code for products such as ASP is not. So PHP is cheap. Because PHP is open source, there is a giant community of PHP programmers that help each other with code. This means PHP programmers can rely on each other by using reusable pieces of code called functions and classes than constantly reinventing the wheel. This can dramatically cut down on production time.
PHP Hypertext Processor is a server-side web programming language that can be embedded in to HTML. PHP uses are widespread, and can include any kind of server functionality that takes user’s input and displays or manipulates the input. PHP can run on both UNIX and Windows servers, which makes it more available than Windows (ASP). This scripting language is growing day by day. PHP5 a fully object oriented language and its platform independence and speed on Linux server helps to build giant and complex web applications.
PHP and MySQL are excellent choice for webmasters looking to automate their websites. Now search spiders "see" all the content on a PHP page, the same way it is viewed in a browser. The creation of a php-shopping cart is surprisingly simple and when done with precision it could translate in to a highly effective and universally accepted php-shopping cart.
PHP is based on C++ language and the syntax used in PHP is similar to C/C++. C/C++ is still thought about the best programming language by lots of programmers and people who love this language would surely feel more comfortable with the syntax of PHP.
