PHP Overview
PHP first launched with the name (Personal Home Page) but then changed to PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is the most used module for the apache web server running over millions of website over internet, PHP was first written by Rasmus Lerdorf and used with Perl and CCI Scripts to track users for there web page. Soon the core group of developer launched the api for it an launched PHP3 in the market. Then rewriting PHP3 by the ZEND transform it to PHP4. PHP4 is much faster then PHP3, more stable and more reliable. Current version of PHP is PHP 5.3.3 in the market.
Why PHP??
PHP has four major advantage for whic it is known Speed, Stability, Security and Simplicity.
1) Speed: PHP script execute very fast and it do not take much computer resource while executing and easily configured with other OS.
2) Stability: PHP is highly Stable Language. As in every language there are some bugs but with a large PHP developer community there is very less chance for the error.
3) Security: PHP language is highly secure as PHP provide much deeper level of security in it’s .ini files.
4) Simplicity: Most of the PHP codes are take from the c language so it is easy for the programmer for more more productive. PHP language cna be easily embedded with the HTML tags or JavaScript so it is more compatible to work with.
5) Platform Independent: PHP can run on almost any platform, It is designed for windows, unix and many more platform support PHP.
6) OpenSource: A large community of developer fix the bugs not an individual organization.
7) Freeware: Completely free to use, just download and start using it.
PHP career development (job opportunity)
As there are more the 19 million website over internet use PHP. So there is a large demand of PHP developer to work in the different area as to provide quality service t the costumer. There are very bright future for the PHP developer. So best wishes for all the PHP developers for there successful career.