Comments on: Why php is popular in the web

By: Software Developer

Software Developer — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:10:32 +0000

We use PHP and MySQL for all of our highly scalable projects and it works very well. On certain occasions we will incorporate JAVA as well but usually for backend processing. Currently PHP5 provides the best UI programming language out there.

By: Roshan

Roshan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:32:15 +0000

@Felix – Do you know facebook, the world’s larget social networking website, is built using PHP?
I think you’ve just underestimated the PHP .

How can you say the PHP development is not scalable.Since PHP5, it has good support for OOP .Furthermore, If you use PHP framework like Zend Framework, CakePHP, Symfony or CodeIgniter then you’ll how scalable PHP project you can make..

By: Felix

Felix — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:20:18 +0000

PHP no es el mejor lenguaje. Seguro!. Ahora, es válido comparar las prestaciones y tecnología de un Ferrari con cualquier otro vehículo de producción?. Creo que PHP es un lenguaje dirigido a un público (que es una gran parte de desarrolladores) que tiene pocas necesidades y que sus desarrollos nunca serán escalables. Para terminar, una pregunta: se justifica hacer un desarrollo en Java para un formulario de contacto que guarde en una base de datos ?.

By: Amr

Amr — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:57:00 +0000

yes, PHP is the best for web ,I’m just missing the beauty of namespaces found in Java and .NET

By: Roshan

Roshan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:16:00 +0000

Well robert!! Are you sure that PHP is so popular because of the hosting companies or its popularity which compell hosting company to support PHP.

Furthermore, If somebody can't write clean and quality code in PHP then it is the fault of that particular programmer, not of PHP.

And finally you've to accept the fact that the lines of JSP code of the member registration process will be relatively larger than PHP code because of being static type to PHP which is a dynamic type.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:51:00 +0000

Are you serious? There is only one real reason why PHP is so popular and that is because of its ease of maintenance for the hosting company.

Yes, it is easy to learn, but few languages aren't. As for code quality, you ask any professional software developer to compare code quality across the board of PHP to whatever and they will likely fall out of their chair laughing. While it has nothing to do with the language, it is a well known fact that PHP apps are in general some of the most poorly written pieces of software ever.

Cost of development is relative to the cost of the developer. The time it takes me to build a PHP app is longer than if I were to build it in Java, solely because I know Java better, not because PHP is cheaper. Same could be said for Ruby for that matter.