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PHP Bible 01

This document discusses why PHP is a good choice for web development. It notes that PHP is open-source, full-featured, cross-platform, stable, fast, clearly designed, easy to learn, and plays well with other technologies. The document provides a brief history of PHP and compares its costs to other technologies like ASP and ColdFusion. It outlines additional benefits like being embedded in HTML, cross-platform compatibility, and integration with databases. Common users of PHP are also listed.

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PHP Bible 01

This document discusses why PHP is a good choice for web development. It notes that PHP is open-source, full-featured, cross-platform, stable, fast, clearly designed, easy to learn, and plays well with other technologies. The document provides a brief history of PHP and compares its costs to other technologies like ASP and ColdFusion. It outlines additional benefits like being embedded in HTML, cross-platform compatibility, and integration with databases. Common users of PHP are also listed.

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PHP Bible

Chapter 1 : Why PHP?

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PHP Bible, 2nd Edition 1  Wiley and the book authors, 2002
Why PHP?

 Brief Synopsis:
 It’s open-source

 It’s full-featured

 It’s cross-platform

 It’s stable

 It’s fast

 It’s clearly designed

 It’s easy to learn

 It plays well with others

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PHP Bible, 2nd Edition 2  Wiley and the book authors, 2002
What is PHP?
 It is a Web development language written by and for
Web developers
 PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
 Originally called Personal Home Page Tools
 Executable files can have extensions of .PHP,
.PHP3, .PHTML
 Currently in its 5th major rewrite called PHP5
 It is a server-side scripting language, which can be
embedded in HTML or used as a standalone
executable.
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PHP Bible, 2nd Edition 3  Wiley and the book authors, 2002
History of PHP?
 Often referred to as the “Open-Source ASP” although
it was actually created prior to ASP
 Originally developed by Rasmus Lerdorf to track
people who visited his website
 Added SQL capabilities in version 2
 In use on 50,000 websites by 1997
 Currently maintained by Zeev Suraski and Andi
Gutmans (ZEND) under the OSF model and
contributions from developers world-wide.
 In use on over 9,000,000 webservers as of 2002.
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Cost comparisons of comparative technologies

Item ASP ColdFusion JSP PHP

Development
$0-$2,499 $599 $0-$2000 $0-$249
tool

Server $1,199 $1,295 $0-$35,000 $0

RDBMS $4999 $4999 $15,000 $0

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Other benefits of PHP
 Embedded in HTML making it easier to reuse code generated
by others or web development apps
 Cross-platform. Can run on Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX, SCO,
HP-UX, Mac OS-X, Windows, and more. Integrates with
Apache, Netscape server, IIS, PWS, Omni web servers.
 Not tag-based (like ColdFusion)
 It’s stable (unlike ASP)
 Server doesn’t have to be rebooted often (even after an upgrade)
 Software doesn’t normally change radically and is backward-
compatible
 It’s zippy (unlike CGI or Can’t Go Instantly)
 Plays well with others (currently integrates support for at least
15 RDBMSs + ODBC and many Internet protocols)
 Can be encrypted so applications can be sold to other parties
who won’t be able to “reverse engineer” your code.
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Who uses PHP?
 In organizations with established web-based
applications, you will typically find PHP in use at:
 Internet-based companies
 Technology-oriented companies
 Companies with a limited budget
 Other companies whose web-based applications were written by a
PHP advocate
 Companies which use other web-based application
environments (e.g. Java, ASP) typically include:
 Large corporations
 Non-technology companies (e.g. hospitals, banks, etc.)
 Companies with ties to organizations promoting their own
development environments (e.g. Sun, Microsoft)
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