There are some compelling reasons to work with PHP4. For many projects you will
find that the production process is significantly faster than you might expect if you
are used to working with other scripting languages. As an open source product,
PHP4 is well supported by a talented production team and a committed user
community. Furthermore, PHP can be run on all the major operating systems with
most servers.
find that the production process is significantly faster than you might expect if you
are used to working with other scripting languages. As an open source product,
PHP4 is well supported by a talented production team and a committed user
community. Furthermore, PHP can be run on all the major operating systems with
most servers.
Speed of Development
Because PHP allows you to separate HTML code from scripted elements, you will
notice a significant decrease in development time on many projects. In many
instances, you will be able to separate the coding stage of a project from the design
and build stages. Not only can this make life easier for you as a programmer, it also
can remove obstacles that stand in the way of effective and flexible design.
PHP Is Open Source
To many people, "open source" simply means free, which is, of course, a benefit in
itself. To quote from the official PHP site at http://www.php.net/:
This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-UNIX
background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or
non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and
hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source
software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official
license.
Well-maintained open source projects offer users additional benefits, though. You
benefit from an accessible and committed community who offer a wealth of
experience in the subject. Chances are that any problem you encounter in your
coding can be answered swiftly and easily with a little research. If that fails, a
question sent to a mailing list can yield an intelligent, authoritative response.
You also can be sure that bugs will be addressed as they are found, and that new
features will be made available as the need is defined. You will not have to wait for
the next commercial release before taking advantage of improvements.
There is no vested interest in a particular server product or operating system. You
are free to make choices that suit your needs or those of your clients, secure that
your code will run whatever you decide.
To many people, "open source" simply means free, which is, of course, a benefit in
itself. To quote from the official PHP site at http://www.php.net/:
This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-UNIX
background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or
non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and
hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source
software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official
license.
Well-maintained open source projects offer users additional benefits, though. You
benefit from an accessible and committed community who offer a wealth of
experience in the subject. Chances are that any problem you encounter in your
coding can be answered swiftly and easily with a little research. If that fails, a
question sent to a mailing list can yield an intelligent, authoritative response.
You also can be sure that bugs will be addressed as they are found, and that new
features will be made available as the need is defined. You will not have to wait for
the next commercial release before taking advantage of improvements.
There is no vested interest in a particular server product or operating system. You
are free to make choices that suit your needs or those of your clients, secure that
your code will run whatever you decide.
Performance
Because of the powerful Zend engine, PHP4 compares well with ASP in benchmark
tests, beating it in some tests. Compiled PHP leaves ASP far behind.
Portability
PHP is designed to run on many operating systems and to cooperate with many
servers and databases. You can build for a UNIX environment and shift your work to
NT without a problem. You can test a project with Personal Web Server and install it
on a UNIX system running on PHP as an Apache module.
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