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