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2.3.12.2 Advantages of PHP
According to a quotation from
[13], there are four main
advantages of PHP, which are cost, portability, ease of maintenance and maturity.
1. Cost.
PHP is
free. It
is developed by
a
lot of people
world wide. PHP community
is
much more active than any other scripting language community.
2. Portability.
This
means
that
it
can
be
compiled
for
virtually
any
operating
system.
Precompiled versions do exist for most commercial and free operating systems.
3. Ease of Maintenance. You do not have to worry about the scripting language
anymore. PHP is updated and improved much more often than any other language.
Good suggestions are adopted extremely fast as the advantage of an open community.
4. Maturity.
Although PHP
is a pretty
young
language (compared
with Perl
for
example),
its
mature
enough
to
be
used
in
any
production
environment,
no
matter
which are the requests.
A lot of large companies started to use PHP in the previous year. Many corporations
adopted
PHP
even
before
making
the
step
to
Linux.
Microsoft
.NET
platform
did
not
seem to impress too much, maybe because UNIX or Linux drives most of the largest
world websites. Java is very popular on Intranets, but due
to its relative higher hardware
demands and lower web server compatibility the adoption rate on Internet servers is not
impressive.
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