Portland PHP Development, a Basic Overview


The PHP scripting language is an extremely popular and a widely employed web development language due to its use in creating dynamic web pages and server side applications. It is known as a general-purpose open source language and usually stands for the P in the LAMP and WAMP architectures. Did you know that PHP is currently the most popular server-side scripting language in the web development industry? Significant portions of mega websites like Wikipedia, Facebook, Yahoo, Digg, Joomla, WordPress and many more have been developed in PHP.

Why is this important? Wherever you find such a large following, you will also find many preexisting scripts and applications, as well as a never ending supply of PHP developers, so your future scaling options are wide open. The availability of scripts also results in a double win of reduced development costs and turnaround time.

Applications developed in this format have an added benefit of not being weighed down by corporate licenses, seat restrictions or any other unnecessary hoops to jump through. Like most modern interpreted languages, PHP can usually be viewed as a human-readable source code. It has become faster and more efficient over the years with the continual introduction of more code optimizers. These reduce the size of code and provide a few more changes that can reduce the overall execution time, resulting in web pages and database driven applications that load much faster.

Another benefit to using PHP is that it already has modules built in for accessing FTP servers, databases, embedded SQL libraries like MySQL and much more. Developers can also write extensions in C. This serves to add functionality to the PHP language, greatly expanding the possibilities of what can be accomplished. These have become especially valuable for integration and API development for the Windows API, as well as Unix and Linux operating system process management.


About the Author

Brian Taylor, of Forix in Portland, OR. To learn more about PHP development approaches, you can contact the web application development consultants at Forix USA.


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