Why has PHP become so popular than other languages in web development industry?

Why has PHP become so popular than other languages in web development industry?

PHP stands for the Hypertext Pre-processor. PHP is an open source general-purpose scripting server-side language which is generally used for the web development and can be embedded into the HTML. I think the father of PHP “Rasmus Lerdorf” never thought that the PHP will become so popular and will get the great heights in the technology market of software, but it happened in the world and now PHP became the most popular server-side scripting language. So, how PHP is so popular, what’s the reason behind it, we will try to find some reasons out of big options available. Here are some reasons listed which made it great success:

1. Most Popular Scripting Language : PHP originally became so popular because it was one of the first scripting language which dynamically generate the contents and executes request. The fact is that PHP script can be placed anywhere in the HTML code that will be passed to server side by the Apache and will be executed by the PHP.

2. Maximum Control: PHP provides more control over the webpage than any other language. Other programming languages need tedious changes if you want to update or need to edit your webpage but with PHP, you can make the changes very easily. PHP embedding with HTML, CSS is very easy and enable the web content to be highly dynamic.

3. Easy and Reliable: PHP configuration is very easy also the installation takes a few minutes of time with all the setup. You can use it on the Localhost with the server Apache by using the XAMPP/WAMPP server. If you need to make any changes in the configuration you just have to open the php.ini file in that you can make the changes and apply to your project.

4. Independent of Operating System: You can use the PHP on any operating system of your choice according to that you can install the server and Apache and enjoy the project development. Even you can deploy your code to any other operating system with that operating system configurations.

So, you don’t have to worry about the operating system at all.

5. Cost Efficient Development: Another reason why the PHP is so popular that any time of development you don’t have to give any money because PHP is a open source free development programming language. Its licensed under the BSD- license so you can use it to make your personal or professional product, web pages, web applications and desktop based application.

6. Great Development support: Since, it is open source so can access to lots of coding available on the internet. Any time if you get stuck to the coding you just search about that error on the internet and you will get your error to be solved in few seconds because so many developers using it so they post about many things on the internet which you can easily access so this is the main thing that PHP is used a lot in web development industry.

7. Fast Development: PHP gives you the ability that you can develop the code in short span of time even for the big projects. It doesn’t take long time to configure the view part or to configure the database part you only to include all things only once and then you can access it anywhere in the project.

These features help in fast PHP Development of the project, which also considered by the companies to develop any project.

8. Supersonic PHP 7: PHP Community has announced introducing PHP7 version in 2015 end, along with some amazing features eg. PHPNG (PHP Next Generation) for performance more than doubled in many cases (2X faster), Skipping Optional Parameters for Functions, Return Type Declarations, Void Types, Replacing current JSON extension with jsond, Spaceship Operator, Remove PHP 4 Constructors, JIT Engine etc.

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