We can build enough robust and interactive web application rapidly with this technology. Day by day php is emerging as highly popular language for web application. Firstly the web application that are written php is obvious to be very lightweight. It is lighter than other choices(JSP,ASP,PERL). It is also a multithreaded language.

There is two very much practical reasons behind such popularity of PHP. First development in PHP is tremendous economical in cost.If we want to use php to build a web site we can use Linux as operating system, Apache as web server and MySql as database that all are open source software and highly compatible with each other.

Secondly, php is such a programming language that are very much easy to learn. So wherever rapid development is concerned, php is a very good option. Another great feature of php is that it posses different specific libraries of functions for very robust and quick data handling from a MySql database. This feature have made php best option for the web based project where data manipulation rate is very high.

As php is easy to learn and to some extent it is not strongly typed language, most of beginners often writes lot of indisciplined codes. But it is completely depends on the programmer. So we should not blame php for this issues. Surely you can write well structured and disciplined code in PHP if you know how to php in proper manner.

But there is some loop holes in php in some security issues.You can ask that why php is not strongly typed language? Or why php is not maintaining strong object orientation. Answer is that the objective of the php was not that. The objective of the php was rapid development of web application that deal with different types of information. But now-a-days, if a php programmer want to write highly secured codes, he will be capable to write that to some extent in php. Everyday it is seen that usage of php in the web is increasing. So we can demand that php is a successful programing language that are fulfilling it's own objective properly.

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sandy - Good one... Publisher | 2008-06-04 08:24:31 A great article with original content. Only point I have regarding the article is PHP has other usage also apart from web applications. So if you can put light on the other advantages of the rich scripting language, we will be benefited. Like desktop application development etc etc. Reply | Quote 0   0

Avi - None of the language listed ab IP:203.145.189.66 | 2008-06-06 03:27:44 please update your databank. None of the language listed above are true multithreaded. PHP is absolutely not. They are scripting languages. Reply | Quote 0   0

deba - re: None of the language liste Registered | 2008-06-08 13:52:49 Avi wrote: please update your databank. None of the language listed above are true multithreaded. PHP is absolutely not. They are scripting languages. hmmm... well sorry sir, I think PHP is not multithreaded by default. But PHP can be run in multi-threaded mode. And then the response time improves. You can go through the article in the following link to know more: http://phplens.com/lens/php-book/optimizing-debugging-php.php You can have the reference of php in multi-threaded mode under Process Management section of the given article. Reply | Quote 0   0

Steven - I guess php is simply great IP:121.247.128.43 | 2008-06-09 06:33:13 Php is in my knowledge simplest to learn and fastest to execute moderate size projects specially web based. And the other big advantage is its overhead is very low and performance is very high with very little training time and cost. Maintenance of projects developed in php language is also very easy with minimum cost to incur in long run and the code complexity is not much when new developers join such project at a later stage. So advantages are more then dis-advantages. So its the end-users decison to make the choice. Reply | Quote 0   0

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