The Rise and Scope of PHP Web Development

PHP is one of the most commonly used developmental platforms in the world today. The language has the potential to process all the data received from the user side or client’s side prior to sending it back as a hypertext. It is this functionality which enables web development thereby making it a tremendous platform to develop dynamic websites. Most of the popular social media sites are built using the PHP technology like WordPress, FaceBook, Baidu, Wikipedia, and many more. They have also integrated other technologies like C++, Java, and the likes, but the base is PHP. This has given a gigantic boost to PHP development across the world and especially in India. The technology being an open source platform has its own benefits.

Why PHP?There are lots of advantages using the PHP technology for your web development projects like it is highly compatible with most other web-server and operating system the application is laid on. Besides, the loading time is considerably reduced which save lot of time. Thus, it is a very light weight open source language for the development of your website. Besides, you get instant results with its real-time data processing and the use of HTML coding which is one of the prime reasons for its vast popularity. PHP development is massively helpful in developing the dynamic websites which give augmented functionality to a webpage.

So, let’s discuss some of the benefits:

An Open Source Platform:

PHP is an open source platform; that means it is freely available on the web and you do not have to pay for any licensing fees. You can freely use all of its source codes; development environment, packages, base libraries, etc. are freely available. Also, the PHP community is continually developing new functionalities of this language thus improving its code package, base libraries and various classes.

Easy to Understand:

PHP is very easy and simple to use. You can very easily develop any website or any application using the PHP codes yourself. The codes are easy to write and understand as the level of complexity of a PHP code is a lot lesser to the other complex technologies to develop web applications or dynamic sites.

Improved Graphics:

PHP is used to create dynamic websites and therefore it can be used to create dynamic images or run-time images. You can also use all the supported image formats with the help of all the image functionalities in a website or web application.

Greater Security:

Applications developed using PHP offers greater security features as the technology uses the latest and high quality security encryption scheme. So, the websites and application you develop using PHP gives your websites and apps enhanced security which means they would be temper-proof.

Compatible with Major Platforms:

One of the biggest advantages of websites or application developed using the PHP technology is that you can very easily host them with almost all the major platforms as it is compatible with a variety of platforms and web servers. It is platform independent. Websites developed using PHP can be hosted on nearly all the web-servers available in the market.

Kristina is a PHP admirer who is a devoted follower of PHP development. She is mainly focused these days upon the tremendous rise in PHP development in India and other countries. She is an open source aficionado also specializing in open source web development technologies.