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  • An overview of PHP
  • by Zend Technologies

  • Published:January 2007
  • Format: Portable Document Format (.pdf)( 172 KB )
  • Length: 4 pages


  • Overview


    PHP is at the forefront of Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Architectures enabler technologies along with other open source projects MySQL, Apache or JBoss. With ten years of development behind it, PHP is a relatively young programming language. Nevertheless, millions of developers world-wide use PHP to develop systems that power over 20 million websites.

    PHP is endorsed not only by its large open source community, but also by leading players and analysts in the IT market such as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. PHP is ideal for Enterprise applications as it is easy to learn yet robust and flexible enough to power business critical applications. PHP is an important player in the software development market. Its popularity with both private software developers and corporate IT departments is having a growing impact on the market for commercial software as well.

    While PHP is heavily used in the development of web based software, it is not limited to this field. It is also used quite frequently to tie together different existing applications or application modules. Such is the case with Yahoo that uses PHP to "glue" together code written in different languages

 
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