PHP: How it began?

The first ever PHP was written by Rasmus Lerdorf and it was called Personal Home Page (and hence the abbreviation PHP). It was the scripts for series of Perl scripts which was used for the purpose of tracking visitors to one’s website or a particular web page and also for seeing who is viewing what. The one who discovered, as named here also used it for checking who is viewing the resume of his. This finally led into him rewriting PHP as some form of scripting engine and also added technical support for forms. The original term Personal Home Page was not used and instead PHP evolved as the PHP Hypertext. This is very effective in creating web applications which can range from e-commerce sites to personal websites and even the community portals. It can be used in forums, blogs and more.

Know of the advantages of PHP Programming:

There are a lot of advantages of PHP, from which we bring to you the ones which are the major advantages. They are:

• PHP is cross platform: PHP can provide one with high compatibility with all the operating systems that are leading along with the web servers. It all will finally help in deploying easily across various platforms. Such scripts are able to run across the different OS like Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX, OpenBSD and more like IIS, Apache, etc.
• It has a lot of extensions: PHP is a platform which is endowed with a large number of extensions and also libraries, which can help in extending the functionalities. And all these are downloadable. The PHP’s source code can also be modified for including the custom created extensions and also components which can be used for increasing the extensibility.
• You get community support: One big advantage which PHP will provide is the community that it has. If one is looking for some particular script then there is a huge possibility that some other professional has created something already, which is similar in concept to the one. You only need to check it within the community to see if it is available. And similarly, if you have made some tool or function which will be helpful then share it with others in the community.
• It is open source: It is widely available for users and free of cost. There is the community of the PHP developers and they are always ready to provide with technical help and they also work to improve the core functionalities of PHP constantly. It is available at free of cost under the General Public License and a lot of the associative are software like MYSQL. The Apache Server and others are also free and hence it is an effective platform for all the developers.
• Its power: There are different web tasks which can be performed with ease with the help of PHP. Small websites can be developed to bigger businesses and it is easier to create informative forums, websites that are well maintained, shopping carts, and platforms for chatting, CRM, good database and a lot more.