Web 2 Applications in PHP

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 What is PHP?
• PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

• PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially

suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

• PHP has a very high level of maturity.

• PHP is innovative and new generation programming language.

• PHP connects technologies and can help you develop "future-proof"

systems.

• PHP runs on one-third of all worldwide web servers and has a strong
community of 4,5 million international developers .

• PHP is widely used in enterprises all over the world - and not only for
managing web sites.
 History of PHP
• 1994 - Written by Rasmus Lerdorf

• 1997 - Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans
– Rewrote parser
– PHP 2

• 1998 - PHP 3

• 2000 - PHP 4
– Still being developed
– Version 4.4.7 - Oct. 2007

• 2004 - PHP 5
– Still being developed
 Why PHP?

Low Learning Curve Rapid

Development

Easy Integration into

Heterogeneous Environments
Run an
Agile
Business
Robust, Multi-Platform,
High-Performance, Scalable, Secure

Proven
Vibrant Community
Deployment
 PHP Status on Internet
Web Server Popularity Apache Modules Popularity (%)

60
SunONE Zeus Others
1% 50
1% 6%
40

30

IIS 20
22% 10

0
Apache mod_perl PHP mod_python
70%
 PHP: Programming
Language of the Year 2004
TIOBE Programming Community Index, December 2008

“PHP has earned the title ‘Programming Language of the Year

2004’ with a positive delta of more than 3 percent within 1 year.

Then came PHP5 and rest is history… Source: http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

PHP Momentum
 What all can you develop in PHP?
• Desktop applications: PHP is probably not the very best language to create a
desktop application with a graphical user interface, but if you know PHP very well,
and would like to use some advanced PHP features in your client-side applications
you can also use PHP-GTK to write such programs. You also have the ability to write
cross-platform applications this way.

• Server-side scripting: This is an important target field for PHP. You need three
things to make this work. The PHP parser (CGI or server module), a webserver and a
web browser. You need to run the webserver, with a connected PHP installation. You
can access the PHP program output with a web browser, viewing the PHP page
through the server. All these can run on your home machine if you are just
experimenting with PHP programming.

• Command line scripting: You can make a PHP script to run it without any server
or browser. You only need the PHP parser to use it this way. This type of usage is
ideal for scripts regularly executed using cron (on *nix or Linux) or Task Scheduler
(on Windows). These scripts can also be used for simple text processing tasks.
 What all can you develop in PHP?

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 About our Training
• PHP Basic
• PHP Advanced
• xHTML
• CSS
• Ajax/Javascript
• Internet Basics
• Applied Networking
• SQL