Why Use PHP In 2021

“Everybody looks for an efficient and effective online business process. Yet, somewhere down the line, everyone is concerned about the future of internet business development. It is sure that the upcoming online business era is under the shed of sheer competition.”

― Delmira Baidoo

What is PHP?

In the simplest way, we can say it is a scripting language for creating websites. These scripts are executed on the server. PHP is free to download and use. If we are talking about means of PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext "Preprocessor" PHP is a widely used, open-source scripting language.

Related Term Of PHP

• PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
• PHP is a popular scripting language.
• It is a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive web pages.
• PHP Syntax is C-Like.
• PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server-side execution.
• PHP is used to extract data out of a database on the Web server and present it on the Web page. known as "Personal Home Page,
• PHP is supported by all Web servers and used with the MySQL database. See MySQL.

Why use PHP

• It runs on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.
• This language is very simple to learn and runs on the server-side.
• It is compatible with almost all servers used today, such as Apache, IIS, etc.
• It supports many databases such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.
• It is suited for Web development and can be embedded into the HTML code.
• PHP can also be used to create dynamic web pages.
• It is often used together with Apache (webserver) on various operating systems. It can also be used with Microsoft's IIS on Windows.
• It is open source and it is free downloadable.

PHP Features

• This is very simple and easy to use, compared to other scripting languages. It is very simple and easy, this is used all over the world for creating websites.
• This is an interpreted language, and there is no need for compilation.
• It is much faster than other scripting languages like asp and JSP.
• It is open-source and you need not pay to use PHP, you can download it for use.
• We can use PHP code that will be run on every platform - Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows.
• It is a case-sensitive scripting language at the time of the variable declaration. In PHP, all keywords (e.g. if, else, while the echo, etc.), classes, functions, and user-defined functions are NOT case-sensitive.
• PHP has some predefined error reporting constants to generate a warning or error notice.
• It can provide access logging by creating a summary of recent accesses for the user.
• It supports variable usage without declaring its data type. It will be taken at the time of the execution based on the type of data it has on its value.

Where we can use It

• We can use it for dynamic websites, and PHP is interacting with the webserver. (Apache etc)
• It is interacting with any back-end and database server like MySQL.
• It is interacting with the native file system of the OS.
• PHP has also implemented the business logical layers.
• It can Encrypt Data and access cookies variables and set cookies.
• We can use PHP to restrict the user to access the specific web page.
• PHP is usually used to output HTML code to the browser.
• PHP is also used to connect web applications with Databases.
• It is used for sending and receiving E-mails.
• We can use PHP to find today's date, and then build a calendar for the month.
• If we host banner advertisements on our website, We can use PHP to rotate them.
• We can use PHP to count our visitors on our website.
• PHP is used for creating a special area of our website for members.
• We can use PHP to create a login page for our users.
• We can add, delete, change elements within our database thru PHP. Access cookies variables and set cookies. Using PHP, We can restrict users to access some pages of our website.
• It can encrypt data.
• PHP performs system functions - open, read, write, and close them.
• It can handle forms, i.e. gather data from files, save data to a file.