With the easy availability of several scripting languages, now-a-

days, developers have the choice to build different applications

like CGI, ASP, Perl and PHP. However in the recent time there

has been a tough competition between ASPX and PHP but the

latter has always emerged as the winner over its

counterparts. John Pereless, a leading name in web

development field also suggests you to use PHP because of its

various advantages. Some of the must-know benefits that this

language comes along with are.

PHP is readily available along with being free of cost and thus

it is termed as open sourced. When thinking about hiring PHP

developers have a look at their background and check

whether they have good knowledge about Java and C.

Developers who have through information about these

languages can do excellent work with PHP. In other words,

PHP can also be defined as a simpler language as compared

to other languages.

PHP helps the users to create dynamic website which means

that more number of people would be interested in visiting

your webpage and thus there would be an increase in the

internet traffic. Increased internet users would automatically

means that you would get better return on your investment.

A cross platform, PHP enables operations that can be done

on different operating systems. PHP works great on windows,

UNIX and LINEX platform and can also interface with Apache.

This is one of the greatest benefits that can be availed by

opting for PHP.

Being a popular language, users can easily find a large number of guidelines and references for the usage of PHP. A large number of forums and support groups can also be found on the internet that can help you to understand this language in better manner. Moreover this online support can be availed in different languages and thus is seen as an added advantage.

Being a highly recognized language, PHP community has

seen a tremendous increase. There are a large number of

PHP developers, users, contributor and employers that offer

jobs in this field. Moreover if you are planning to hire a PHP

developer, you are not the only one with such a requirement.

Even though PHP is well established, it would be not possible to decide its future. As it is loosely typed, it becomes easier to develop simple scripts which in turn mean that less amount of energy is required to design the website. Therefore John Pereless recommend this language as it also helps in increasing the level of security of your work.