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PHP: most popular server-side Web scripting technology

alexblock110 — 2010-06-04T07:31:05+00:00

Even though PHP is still more widely used than ASP, .NET def has some powerful and efficient processes that I wish PHP had. And there isn't a totally kick-butt editor either. Not as good as Visual Studio anyways. - Kevin

PHP: most popular server-side Web scripting technology

tomek — 2005-05-13T13:37:28+00:00

PHP is very easy to use. If you have some experience of C you won't have any problems to get started with PHP. Even HTML coders can start integrating PHP into their pages straight away. But maybe PHP is too simple. What do I mean by that? The simplicity of PHP means that almost anyone can write some scripts and as a result there is a lot of badly designed code out there. This gives PHP a bad name it does not deserve because it is a very powerful tool. PHP is designed for building Web applications that are scalable up to a very large number of users. With PHP 5 many developers finally got the robust support for object oriented programming they where waiting for but also its XML and MySQL support was much improved. There is much discussion about if PHP is "enterprise ready" - I truly believe it is since it reached version five. Tom

PHP: most popular server-side Web scripting technology

wisegirl71 — 2003-04-10T14:03:32+00:00

The latest report is trending up:
http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200303/apachemods.html

PHP: most popular server-side Web scripting technology

DeletedUser1260 — 2002-06-04T18:06:16+00:00

Well, according to Security Space, PHP Apache module has been constantly loosing market share since January: details here

Just my 0.02 grains of salt...