Why PHP is so popular?

According to NetCraft surveys - PHP is the most popular and user-friendly module for the Apache server. There are more then two million website running based on PHP. I represent some points why PHP is such a popular scripting language in the world.

A short past of PHP

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)s first written by Rasmus Lerdorf. He was trying to make as a simple set of Perl scripts to track users of his Website page. Rasmus Lerdorf soon had enquiries based from other people and rewrote it as a scripting engine. He also added support forms, thus forming PHP/FI. After its popularity grew day by day, a core group of developers created an API for it and turned it into PHP3. By now PHP was being used in situations which were not envisage, so a complete rewrite of the script parser was undertaken (the Zend engine), creating PHP4, which was much faster than PHP3. PHP now stood for PHP…

Advantages of PHP

• PHP is accessible
• It's available for free (Open Source)
• It's available with certification in various languages
• There are many online support groups, forums, and teams for PHP development query
• There is a wealth of online information regarding PHP
• It's quick to develop in PHP
• PHP is loosely typed, which makes basic scripts much faster to develop with less notice to design and develop
• PHP is flexible. Use LOOP or not. Use naming meeting or not
• It runs on many different operating systems like UNIXs, Windows and MACS
• It can be optimized, even "compiled" for performance closer to that of more established compiled languages

PHP is highly customizable application, and you can keep it small by only installing as much as per your need to perform required tasks.

PHP development provides solutions in:

• Web design and development
• Ecommerce website design and development
• Online catalogs design
• Web-based application development
• Custom CRM (Customer Relationship Management) development
• Custom CMS (Content Management System) development
• Social media/ networking site development
• Several others, as per the requirement

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