PHP has many merits over other scripting languages. Some of them are as follows:

1) Speed - PHP is considered to be the best among the scripting languages. You can really feel the speed when you apply scripts live on the web. Usually when you try to link a database and obtain certain data, it takes time to connect the database, implement the statement and obtain the data across. Because of its high performance in terms of speed, PHP is being applied for some of the essential Web server administration such as mail functionality.

2) Open Source - PHP is an open source. This means users are known a free of charge license to remodel or recode PHP, according to their requirements. You may be surprised to know how this is possible without source code but source code is shipped with PHP - it is open source.

3) Multi Platform - PHP chains a variety of Plat forms, which means PHP can be installed on nearly all operating systems such as Windows-x and Linux, just opt the suitable version to download and go behind the instructions specified in the Manual accordingly.

4) Easy Syntax - PHP syntax is fairly effortless to code. It is comparable to that of the ‘ C ‘ language. If you are fresh to the programming background though, getting used to the syntax might be a bit hard.