#PHP Technology
No doubt PHP is one of the fastest growing open source web technologies for making static and dynamic websites. Despite its simplicity & flexibility, PHP is a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. It’s a Server scripting language originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 and appeared in the market in 1995. PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”, but it now stands for the term “Hypertext Preprocessor”. The main goal of PHP is to allow web developer to create dynamically generated pages quickly.
Advantage - Features of PHP!
✔ Easy to learn: PHP has a very easy and understandable syntax. Its codes are based on C, C++ and embedded with HTML so it is very easy to learn for a programmer.
✔ Free of cost: PHP and its entire components can be downloaded, use and distributed freely as its open source software.
✔ Platform Independent: It can run on almost all major Operating system (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.).
✔ Compatible with almost all servers: PHP is compatible with almost all servers (Apache, IIS, etc.) used today.
✔ Supports Wide Range of databases: MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Informix etc.
✔ Secure: PHP has multiple layers of security to prevent threats and other malicious attacks.
Power of PHP - Why PHP is so Important Today?
Long story short, let's go through few points mentioned hereunder, that would itself answer the question.
✔ PHP is the core of the biggest blogging system on the web (WordPress)!
✔ It is deep enough to run the largest social network (Facebook)!
✔ Easy enough to be a beginner's first server side language!
Interesting fact about PHP
Despite its features, usage & implementation, did you know ? The Mascot of PHP is “elePHPant”, a blue elephant with the PHP logo on its side, designed by Vincent Pontier in 1998.
Supported Versions of PHP
✔ From it’s initial stable release, each released PHP branch is supported for two years. Every bug and security issues reported are fixed & released regularly, during that period
✔ Every PHP branch reaches to end of life(EOL) after three years and no longer supported afterwards. However, prior to EOL, each branch gets additional one year support for critical security issues only.
Source : http://php.net/supported-versions.php
Your first PHP scripting is as simple as this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo "My first PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>
Closing Thoughts
To conclude the summary, We would use the below self explanatory statistical diagram, that is a simple comparison between different popular technologies and the reason why PHP is considered as the fastest growing open source web technology, despite many competitive technologies available and getting invented almost every day/week.
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