Major Advantages of PHP Over Other Programming Languages

by Arthor Alberto

Have you ever thought why PHP Development Company is so sought after? There are many different programming languages which developers choose for building web applications like ASP, JSP, Perl, PHP etc. Hence so many web applications have been built using either JSP, ASP or PHP. But among all of these PHP is the most popular programming language for web development. Right now the current status is that PHP has been used by more than 80% of all the websites on internet. PHP is also used for WordPress development and the most famous social networking site Facebook has also been built using PHP. Hence PHP has lots of credibility compared to other similar programming languages. In today’s time if someone wants to build a career in web development then PHP is one of the most popular language to learn and to get so many career opportunities. Now we will discuss about some of the advantages of choosing PHP over other programming languages for web development.

PHP is Open Source, Simple and Easy to Learn

PHP is free and open source and it can be used by anyone. It is the best programming language used by expert web developers to build cutting edge open source development solutions. It is very easy to learn and use. This is due to the similarities PHP syntax has with C, C++ and Java. For the developers who has just started, PHP is the best scripting language they can learn as it is clear, easy to understand and can be used to build amazing web solutions.

PHP is Used in Many CMS and Frameworks

PHP is also popular for Custom PHP Development and the PHP community is very large. There are many CMS and frameworks available which have been developed using PHP and they all have strong PHP community. Whatever type of code or help you are looking at, you will most probably find with the help of these communities. There are many PHP CMS and frameworks which can also help you. These are given below:-

WordPress

Magento

Drupal

Joomla

Cake PHP

Code Igniter

Symfony

Zend

Etc.

PHP has Huge Support From the Community

As PHP is so popular and widely used hence finding help or documentation for PHP online is very easy. You can get free support through various forums, PDFs, blogs and social media. As it is open source therefore there are large support communities of PHP and LAMP. PHP has the largest developer and user base amongst all scripting language. Hence you can resolve your issues which you may face during PHP development quite easily.

PHP Applications are Easy to Integrate

You talk to any PHP Developer and they can tell easily why PHP applications are easy to integrate with so many different types of software, CRM, ERPs. PHP is used for many web applications. Systems such as MongoDB, Pusher all integrate with PHP easily. Whatever industry you can think of, there are PHP applications in all including banks, government, hospitals, hotels, fashion, travel and large corporations which can be easily integrated with any type of PHP web application.

PHP is Fast

PHP doesn’t use much of system resources in order to run and operates much faster than other scripting languages. Hosting PHP application is also easy and lots of hosts provide support for PHP. Even when we use PHP with other software, PHP still shows high performance and doesn’t make other processes to slowdown. PHP is now a very stable and mature language. PHP programming is not complicated at all and if a program is well written in PHP then it is often much easier to understand it to know what it does and how it does it.

PHP Applications are highly Scalable

The feature of Scalability is highly preferred in today’s world of Software development. Whether you are dealing with database, hosting or programming application, scalability is always a good thing. Due to the way PHP is build, PHP applications are highly scalable in nature. You can easily increase the size of your PHP application by adding more servers or code as your project grows.

Conclusion

As we have just discussed that there are so many advantages of PHP over other programming languages. PHP is open source, free, stable, scalable, easy to integrate, with so many PHP CMS and frameworks available in the market, light weight and also high is speed and performance. Therefore PHP is highly easy to use, easy to learn and popular and used to create so many types of small, medium or large enterprise level web applications and compared to other programming languages, PHP remains on top.