Can anyone tell me the benefits of PHP?

[aandybinaton]

- PHP is a purpose built language for the internet. It is specifically designed to run on web servers to deliver dynamic web pages as quickly as possible, even on extremely high traffic websites.
- PHP is a tried and tested language for the internet. It's over 10 years old and is used on everything from banking to social network websites. Some of the biggest players who use PHP include Yahoo and Facebook. Even companies like IBM make use of PHP.
- one of the biggest reasons to choose PHP is that it reduces development costs by up to 2/3rds of proprietary languages. The software required to run PHP is also freely available and open source, further reducing running and operation costs for years to come.
- PHP has the huge advantage of being supported by virtually every server in the world. Unlike other proprietary languages that require expensive software to be installed on the server, PHP just requires Apache, a lightweight, free server side application that can be installed on any computer in the world. This compatibility and extremely economical running costs makes PHP the number one choice for businesses around the world.
- There is no special software that the user requires in order to view and use your website. PHP is executed by the server and your visitors just see the finished output.

[qwe33]

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[andrikcode]

- Open Source, readily available and dual - licensed - if you are doing non-profit work or not licensing, there is no cost.
- Very Easy to understand Syntax, some really cool features
- Interfaces very easily with Apache / MySQL
- Server side (no need to futz with client installs - only with rendering issues if you use CSS).
- Lots of good source code out there to use and/or learn from, as well as many useful libraries for working with PDFs, graphics, etc.
- Platform agnostic, can run on Windows Linux or Mac servers. Also very scalable.
- Lots of hosting services have it ready to use, no special configuration - Pretty easy to access other web-based tools through PHP

[allyroghur]

PHP is a server side language that can be used in web browsers. It has many benefits that range from workload, to alloying dynamic content. PHP can me embedded into regular html code, just like javascript and CSS, if you change the file's extension to php.

[jemmapinder]

php can be more useful for building webs. a) more dynamic content. b) easy to integrate with a database c) easier to maintain.

html and php both have there limits. most good sites, like this one will use scripts, ajax, databases and lots of other standards

[cuinan]

Very nice post. This will help possible client to get a quality person.

[jamesreyes]

Benefit of php:

• PHP is open source server side programming language obtainable at free of cost that can be get easily from market.
  
• Nowadays developing dynamic websites are in the huge demand due to its specific characteristics like it automatically refreshes and does not need to make much changes manually.
  
• PHP must be installed on the server and server parses the code at its source, executes and sends it properly send properly formatted html to the client computer.
  
• Its script is optimized to make the server's job easier, thus nowadays the uses of PHP is being popular among the programmers.

[webmaster.9839]

Originally Posted by Helen

hi, Which is the best ASP or PHP...?

according to me PHP is best...

[mitchellpk123]

PHP is dynamic, wich means you can create your page on the fly.You can even change the header before sending the content to the client.It is the script language,software and dynamic websites.easy to learn and earn it.PHP is a widely used open source scripting language for developing websites and web applications and is probably the easiest to learn programming language.

[stevedeath12]

PHP has become most popular Web programming language not only because it is free. PHP are quick and if written properly, they are much safe. There are also many ready PHP scripts and functions, which you can change to liking and use in PHP applications. Also it can make better dynamic web applications, these are some benefits of PHP.