PHP: most popular server-side Web scripting technology

Posted May 13, 2005 13:37 UTC (Fri) by tomek (guest, #29487)
Parent article: PHP: most popular server-side Web scripting technology

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