In history, the first version was created by Rasmus Lerdorf way back in 1995.Over the span of 14 odd years and different evolutions it has become one of the most assertive programming language for web development worldwide.

Most of the open source web applications have cradled PHP as their language of choice. THere are various reasons of popularity of PHP . Some are..

1: Peace of learning- The programming language builds are easy to understand and there is abundance of material available online.
2: Abundance of freely available quality libraries- Several quality reusable libraries of code have been made available on the net by php addicts,allowing you to reuse code effectively.
3: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) hosting is cheap with compare of different technologies like ASP and Java.
4: Availability of PHP based frameworks for rapid development like Cakephp .
5: Existence to separate presentation layer from the business and data layer like Smarty Templates.
6: Affluence of people carrying strong PHP development skillset.

Some most popular applications running on php e-vBulletin,oscommerce,x-cart,pMachine,ez-Publish,Gallery,phpBB,WordPress and php-nuke.There have been different camps which have raised issues about PHP not being and enterprise grade software and not meant for high performance websites but all these.

There have been several camps which have raised issues about PHP not being and enterprise grade software and not meant for high performance websites but all these affirmations have been baseless and biased views. Facebook.com is a better example of high traffic scalable site running on PHP.   Even though PHP can be used as a command line language, it’s primary usage and acquiring is as a web development language.

Tags: web development

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