What are the advantages learning PHP (Web Programming Language)

PHP web development simply means that you don't have to make site pages again and again like we do in HTML but you can easily develop websites and dynamic web pages using the versatile and capable server-side scripting language. 

PHP offers a lot of  benefits that will definitely unleash your limits of developing something outstanding. Not only is it open-source but also feature-rich and has all the functionality that a proprietary or paid scripting language would offer. Here are a few benefits that have made PHP web development so sought after.

1. Free of Cost

PHP is open source and is developed and updated by a community of developers from around the globe. Therefore, all its components are free to use and distribute.

2. Capable

It can be used to design any type of website and can handle websites with a lot of traffic. Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and many other very widely visited websites use it as their framework. And because it is server-side scripting, it can do anything that other CGI programs can do.

3. Easy

It has a readable and easily understandable syntax. Its code is embedded in the HTML source code and it is based on C/C++. Therefore, it is very familiar and programmers are very comfortable coding with it.

4. Platform Independent

It can be run on all major operating systems like Linux, UNIX, Mac OS and Windows.

5. Supports All Major Web Servers

It supports all major web servers like Apache, Microsoft IIS, Netscape, personal webserver, iPlanet server, etc.

6. Supports All Major Databases

IT supports all major databases including MySQL, dBase, IBM DB2, InterBase, FrontBase, ODBC, PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc.

7. Faster Developments

It uses its own memory space and thus decreases the loading time and workload from the server. The processing speed is fast and web applications like Ecommerce, CRM, CMS and Forums are also developed faster by it.

8. Secure

It has multiple layers of security to prevent threats and malicious attacks.

9. Large Communities

It has a large community of developers who regular and timely updates tutorials, documentation, online help and FAQs.

10. Proven and Trusted

It is being used since close to two decades now since its inception in 1995. It is trusted by thousands of websites and developers and the list is increasing day by day. It has also proven its capability and versatility by developing and maintaining some of the most highly visited and popular websites..