PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. It is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.
Reviewing 5.4.0 Alpha 1 (Jul 1, 2011)
With C & C++ syntax being most natural feeling to me, I always use PHP for web coding tasks. I've actually ended up building fairly elaborate order processing, support, and fulfillment systems with it. To say it is easy would be an understatement. Not only is PHP 'natural' for people like me, but it is very forgiving for people just learning - not quite so strict on syntax, though of course it must have certain syntactical rules. Wonderful language. I'm glad it is continually improved as well.
Reviewing 5.3.0 Alpha 1 (Aug 1, 2008)
UniversityofKentucky: The following PHP based app is free and uses FPDF. It will directly convert an HTML page to PDF which is extremely useful and it DOES do a very very good job:
http://www.tufat.com/s_html2ps_html2pdf.htm
Reviewing 5.2.6 (May 2, 2008)
Lots of nice features natively of by using extensions. Pretty easy web development.
Some bugs exists version after version, due to its complexity, by they tend to be fixed early.
In terms of speed, in the beginnings, it was faster than ASP, and on pair with Coldfusion. Nowadays, it has outperformed Coldfusion, but is not as fast as ASP.NET.
Reviewing 5.2.5 (Nov 13, 2007)
You can't find a better language than PHP.
Used to C++? PHP can do your OO programming.
Like your procedural language like BASIC or MODULA2? PHP can do it...
PHP, of course, works brilliantly with mySQL, which gives the world LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
PHP is also a great AJAX backend too.
I've used many langages and PHP is all of them!
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