If you are a beginner web designer, most probably you have had
faced the difficulty to having some dynamic contents on your
site, Just think about a small Guest book, some form to be
submitted directly from your site, some dynamic results based on
user’s previous action……. All impossible with simple html!
Although Java scripts can do some of your dynamic works, like
automatic form submission by email etc, but this is just client
side (all work done on the computer have your page loaded, means
you can’t save something to server), another option remains for
you is to use the 3rd party ready-made services that enables you
to install the dynamic contents on your site, with there half
page annoying ads! Or you have to pay them a leg or an arm to
remove their text and banners! So if you are serious about your
web, its time to think about a tool that can store data on your
web server, retrieve and process data directly on server and
display just the final results (in simple html) on your
visitor’s PC. It’s certainly you are thinking about the
Server-Side programming language. Now the major question arise
which technology to use? Every one wants to get maximum returns
with minimum efforts. And if their is the same case with you,
PHP is the most recommended solution. Let see, PHP: Php
Hypertext Processor (a recursive acronym) currently most
widely-used open source server-side programming language. PHP
with the shortest learning curve, if you are already familiar
with C / Java, you can start developing in PHP in just next 30
minutes! Its highly compatible runs on any 32 bit or better
platform (UNIX / Linux / Windows) without changing a bit in your
codes, *1 currently 16,946,328 Domains on 1,348,793 IPs
(Servers) are using PHP! *2 Another statistics is that it is
supported by more then 98% web servers! Php has remarkable
Database support, PHP with MYSQL is really an awesome
combination. PHPLIB is a set of libraries with most commonly
required routines. If you are inspired of Object Oriented
Paradigm, PHP has it for you, OOP support in PHP is sufficient
enough for most web programming related tasks, plus their is
nothing to worry for the programmers don't like to use OOP. The
most major future of PHP that encourages web hosts to provide
support for PHP on their servers is that its really very lite.
For many simple tasks PHP running on P-133 with just 32 Mb RAM
ran circles around ASP code on an NT machine having P500 with
600 Mb RAM! For more information, www.php.net can be the best
start.
*1 Stats for August 2004 from www.PHP.net *2 Missing the actual
resource!
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