About PHP

What is PHP?

Introduced just few years ago, today PHP is one of the most important tools for the creation of dynamic web pages. Initially, it was just used for some basic applications. As the time went by, developers started recognizing its hidden potential and started using it for the creation of cutting-edge web solutions.

The major benefits of PHP are:

• Open source technology
• Server side scripting language
• Managing ability for huge database-driven online applications
• Cross platform ability
• Large number of modules available for different applications
• All major present day virtual servers can be configured for PHP Development
• HTML Code can be embedded within PHP Code

Why PHP

In a very short time period, PHP has gained popularity in the developer's network. Using the same code base, PHP can be compiled and built on about 25 platforms, including most UNIXs, Windows (95/98/NT/2000) and Macs.

As PHP is very similar to C, anyone who has experience with C language will quickly understand PHP. In fact, much of the PHP's functionality is provided by wrappers around the underlying system.

PHP, which is extendible, consists of the core parsing engine, a set of core code modules and a set of code extensions. This allows programmers to extend PHP in two ways to do some special processing− either by writing an extension module and compiling it into the executable, or by creating an executable that can be loaded using PHP's dynamic loading mechanism.

PHP is load able on Apache, IIS, AOL Server, Roxen and THTTPD. Alternatively, it can be used as a CGI module. Moreover, PHP works with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Informix, PostgreSQL and other binary level interfaces. In cases where the database is not supported, ODBC is used.

PEAR− PHP Extension and Add-on Repository–is similar to the CPAN network for Perl. Although it’s still in infancy, the idea of PEAR is to provide a set of PHP scripts that would be installed by default with the PHP installation.

PEAR - The PHP Extension and Add-on Repository. Similar to the CPAN network for Perl, although still in its infancy, the idea of PEAR is to provide a set of PHP scripts that would be installed by default with the PHP installation.

Following are the benefits of PHP/My SQL application development with Kaushalam:

• Lower IT costs
• Better understanding of business trends
• Better shopping experience for your users through our robust PHP web applications
• Better sales and productivity through CRM PHP My SQL applications that automate your organization process
• Lower operational costs due to automated application systems
• Better customer service due to highly-responsive online systems
• Cost-effective personalized PHP applications solutions