PHPDevelopment
PHP is a general-purpose Server-Side Scripting Language originally designed for Web Development for dynamic web pages. PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document or PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language and then interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document.
Some Features of PHP:
- PHP is a server-side scripting language, like old ASP.
- PHP scripts are executed on the server
- PHP supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, etc.)
- PHP is an open source software
- PHP is free to download and use
Advantages of PHP over ASP.NET:
- Free
- Open source
- Easier to learn due to its basic scripting language structure and build in functionality
- PHP5 now offers many object orientated development concepts
- Runs on Apache server which is open source
- Has multiple platform support
- Marginally faster due to the overheads imposed by .Net’s Common Language Runtime, which is responsible for intermediate compilation of .Net’s many languages
- Has a huge support base as it is open source