Saturday, March 12, 2011

The Advantages Of Choosing PHP Software Development

By Petr Kudlacek


There are good reasons for choosing PHP software development tools to create of dynamic web applications. PHP is an acronym that means "pre-HTML Processor". A web page that with the PHP file extension has code that is executed by the web server before the HTML output is sent to the web browser on the client. A regular HTML file has static content that never changes. A PHP file, on the other hand, is dynamic.

There are other similar packages that do the same thing that this web technology does. However, most of these are very expensive. PHP, on the other hand, is totally free. Anyone can use this programming language without buying any licenses or paying any royalties or anything of that nature. This programming language can do everything that the an expensive commercial web application programming tools can do.

A major function of a dynamic web application is the interfacing with a relational database. It is the access to a relational database that provides the capability to serve dynamic data. PHP has built-in functions that enable it to use the mySQL relational database. This professional level database system, like PHP, is free. It does not require the purchase of a license. This relational database is robust and powerful and works just as well as the expensive commercially available relational databases.

The commercial application creation programs were developed to be executed on a specific operating system running a specific web server. While it is possible for them to run on other operating systems using various web servers, it is often very difficult to do so and there are a lot of problems. In contrast, PHP will run on any operating system using any web server. This flexibility is a big selling point for PHP.

PHP is very easy to learn. Even someone without a programming background can easily teach themselves this language. Other server languages can be very difficult. They will have frequent releases that will demand expensive retraining classes. It is easy to write code that is difficult to hack with this language.

After having read of all the advantages of PHP, it should be clear that there is no need to invest thousands of dollars in a application development system when you can use PHP for free. You will have no annoying licenses to worry about. PHP is a professional level powerful programming technology in which you can have confidence.




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