PHP began as a script which was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf, who used it to track visitors coming to his website. The work was to check who all were viewing his Resume and he called it Personal Home Page. Later on, Lerdorf added support and made it into a scripting engine for forms. This has eventually grown as PHP Hypertext and is used as a language to program sites. Today, PHP is used in creating web development applications from personal websites, e-commerce, blogs, forums and other community web applications. The PHP comes with some certain advantages which includes-
Open Source- PHP can be used freely. The community of developers from PHP web development keep providing technical support and keeps continuously updating and improving on the core functionalities of PHP. It is available free of cost and the associates mostly require software like My SQL. This language is highly cost effective and for all the developers.
Cross- Platform- PHP can be used across different platforms as it can be operated in different operating systems and can be easily deployed across different platforms. PHP web development software can be operated across different web servers like IIS, Apache, iPlanet and across different operating systems like Windows, OpenBSD, Linux and others.
Different Task Performer- One can use PHP and develop different types of web tasks. Both small and giant websites can be built using the PHP platform. One can develop chatting platforms, discussion forms, organizational websites, e-commerce solutions and much more using the PHP web development.
Quick and User Friendly- The platform has been designed to access POST and GET and also in working with URLs and HTMLs. These can be quickly and concisely created in PHP. The platform is also much easier to work with than C++, ASP.Net etc.
Extensions- As it is an open source platform, there are large number of extensions and libraries which are extended to its core functionalities. There are lots of these functionalities available for download where the source code can be modified to custom create extensions in this form of web development.
There are many other features like easy deployment, automatic refreshing of the content, security and support from the PHP community that makes this web development tool the most useful and effective.