Way to Success
Specialists from software testing lab decided to shine a spotlight on the history and way to success of one of the best programming languages – PHP.
In 2015, PHP programming language marked 20 years. PHP was created by one talented Dutch developer Rasmus Lerdorf. Even though the release of scripting language took place in far 1995, eventually, its productivity has considerably improved. Even today, in the era of growth and prompt development of IT testing services and modern web technologies, PHP nevertheless holds positions. Besides, according to QA consulting forecasts, PHP will remain the most popular programming language for web applications development in the next years.
What is PHP?
And now, few words about PHP programming language itself. It’s an acronym, which is deciphered as “a hypertext preprocessor”. PHP represents the scripting language with an open-source code, created for web applications writing (scripts & scenarios) which are carried out on web servers. PHP can be inserted without effort into any HTML page, it doesn’t depend on the computer speed of the user or browser. PHP completely works at the party of the server.
Purposes of PHP
PHP programming language – is a perfect choice, if one wants to design a prototype and develop a static and dynamic website. The most popular fields, where PHP is mostly used are startups, advertising, and media agencies, as well as small software development companies.
PHP is Around Us!
According to Wappalyzer – an app that allows defining used technologies on the website shows that 82% of all websites on the Internet were designed by means of PHP.
Such popular platforms as Facebook, Flickr, Wikipedia & Digg are based on PHP. Search engine Yahoo, as well as mailing service Mailchimp, are designed due to PHP programming language.
Some popular Content Management systems , such as WordPress, Drupal & Joomla are also created on the basis of PHP. According to the researches in the field of web technologies, WordPress dominates in the CMS market of systems and is used in 25% of all websites.
Key to Success
The key to success & popularity of PHP lies in advantages of the given this programming language. Developers consider PHP simple in studying and use, and for end users who believe that all the websites, which are written by means of PHP, are more convenient in use.
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