PHP APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
PHP Application development is the same as all other application development which means to create programs which would be able to perform micro-tasks or functions which would accompany the software or hardware with new benefits. Source codes are written by many developers and programmers for any number of actions like sending an email automatically to a directed address. PHP is a scripting language which is generally designed for the development of web pages and also to produce dynamic web page. For this purpose, a PHP code is usually embedded in form of HTML source document whish are interpreted by a web-server to generate the web page document using PHP processor module. Command line interface capabilities are also included in PHP Application Development and it can also be used as a standalone graphical applications. PHP can be used free of cost in any or in most web servers and as a standalone interpreter upon almost every operating platform or system. RadPHP is an application development framework for the PHP language. PHP is a competitor to Microsoft’s ASP (Active Server Pages) script engine and many similar languages and today PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and over 1 million web servers.
PHP was originally designed by Rasmus Lerdorf in the year 1995. The PHP Application Development Group is now mainly implementing the development in PHP language. In today’s competitive market it is essential for survival for every business to own a well designed and a well developed website. Websites are necessary for business looking for online retailing or sales and there is present a huge competition for developing and building a good and attractive website to attract customers toward their website that could be used to influence them to buy from their website. Static HTML, flash are some of the various ways to build websites and the existence of many scripting language for safer and quicker web site development, PHP is one among them. Not only PHP adds functionality to the website, but helps the customers to act together with the website through the manipulation of script language. One of the many advantages of PHP is its simplicity as because PHP is influenced from c, c++, pearl, etc, it is easy to understand and learn which is helpful for the programmers for programming and any programmer will feel comfortable with PHP. PHP also offers a great performance improvement over the general tool-sets and development stacks as PHP works on traditional web stack especially most general being the LAMP stack. Customization is one of the features that can be found in the web sites developed by PHP Application Development programmers which can be influenced according to the necessities of the content management system such as Word Press, Drupal and Joomla which are prepared on PHP only. PHP is also cost effective which is the main reason behind the fame of this language as it is economic for the programmers and can e obtained free of charge on the internet. Businesses with limited budget can afford PHP without compromising for quality. PHP also offers advanced usability as it is user friendly and also contains many more features.
So, developing websites can be made easier through PHP Application Development as per the need and requirements of the projects and also is profitable.