17-01-2013, 04:54 PM
Personal Home Page
Introduction
PHP stands for “ Personal Home Page ” and
its alias name is “ Hypertext Preprocessor ”
PHP is a server side scripting language implemented by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 using c & dos soft.
PHP where using to develop dynamic web application.
Reasons for Using PHP
Speed and robustness.
Superior Memory Management
No Hidden Costs with PHP
Integration with MySQL database.
Closer to Java/C++ Style of Programming.
Cross Platform Migration Strategy.
ADVANTAGES OF PHP
PHP 5.0 is supports Object Oriented Programming concept.
PHP execution is very fast Zend engine.
PHP 5.0 is providing mysql library, to execute for SQL statement MySQL Database.
PHP is supports different types of content management system like ZOOMLA, DRUPAL etc.
PHP is open source.
Simple and very easy to learn
Easy and cost effective hosting.
Disadvantages Of PHP:-
not good to create Desktop applications.
Security flows due to unknown vulnerabilities.
If you want to do more than just HTML/CSS pages on the client you need to also add Java scripts, JAVA or other client side language in your output(goes for perl and some other language) .