Points to remember

Points to remember

● PHP is Open source & Community support scripting language

● PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development.

● Seventy Percentage of Website has been built by PHP and MySQL

● Major of the webservers can support PHP scripting language

● PHP can embed easily with HTML and client side scripting language

● PHP has built-in function which can be easily connected to MySQL database

● PHP scripting language has been supported by many Software frameworks

Facebook technology stack consist of application written in many language, including PHP and many others. Facebook still uses PHP but it has built a compiler for it so it can be turned into native code. Facebook has many things built in PHP. Actually it’s not the real PHP, Facebook has written alternative version of PHP that is, HipHop’s HPHP’c which help to convert PHP code into C++.

PHP has also attracted the development of many software frameworks that provide building blocks and a design structure to promote rapid application development (RAD). Some of these include PRADO, CakePHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Yii Framework, Phalcon and Zend Framework, offering features similar to other web frameworks.