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PHP
PHP: Hypertext Processor
What is it?
PHP is an open source project by The Apache Software Foundation (probably
better known as the developers of the Apache http server).
PHP was originally designed as a scripting language to be embedded in HTML, which it suits very well.
Syntactically it's similar to C, and in some ways Perl, which makes it fairly easy for most developers to learn.
Pros
- Quick development phases
- Open Source, and free licencing
- Excellent support for web development
- Integration with Java and COM / DCOM
- Good database support
- Available for most operating systems
- Code developed is generally cross plaform
- Runs as cgi or sapi, for maximum compatibility with webservers
- Constantly improving
- Optional extensions, only install what you need
Cons
- Source code isn't compiled, so it can be quite slow
- Limited use outside a webserver, although improving
Consider using for
- The vast majority of web and intranet applications
- Dynamic webpages
- Producing simple HTML reports from a database
- Better browser support, instead of using DHTML
- Simple HTML forms handling
Some useful PHP links
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