What is PHP?
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is an open source, general-purpose scripting language, that is used to develop websites or web applications. PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 as an intuitive server-side scripting language
What is a scripting language?
A scripting language is a sort of computer programming language used to send instructions, or scripts, to software. These contain a series of commands that are interpreted one by one at runtime unlike programming languages that are compiled first before running.
Differences between Programming Language Vs. Scripting Language
| Programming Language | Scripting Language |
| Compiled | Interpreted |
| Data and code separated | Data and code integrated |
| The code has to be compiled before it can be executed | The code is usually executed without compiling |
| Does not need to be embedded into other languages | Is usually embedded into other software environments |
| More detail oriented | More productive |
| Used to development different applications: web, mobile, etc. | Mostly used for web development |
| Examples: Perl, Ruby, Visual Basic, Python | Examples: Java, CC++, Ada, Pascal |
Why use PHP for web development?
PHP is known as one of the most commonly used programming language on the server – side with benefits like:
- Open-source
- Scalability
- High performance
- Security
- Cost efficiency
Web Apps developed with PHP
Many tech giants and companies from different fields use PHP
Social media platforms like Facebook use PHP
Facebook was originally developed in PHP, but over time it has included a variety of aspects and services using different languages and technologies. They created their own programming language, although it was still based on PHP, HipHop for PHP
WordPress
WordPress is a free, open-source website-building platform, or, to put it another way, a PHP-based content management system (CMS) that leverages a MySQL database.
Spotify
Spotify is a music, podcast, and video streaming service that allows you access to millions of songs and other material from around the world. It uses PHP on the server side.
PHP developments
One Solutions delivers professional PHP developers with over 10 years of expertise to work with scalable, reliable HPH web solutions at competitive rates. We can create PHP developments for e-commerce sites, social network sites, and more.
To learn more about our outsourcing PHP services, get in touch with us right now.