How Your SMB Can Benefit from PHP

PHP or Hypertext Process is a general purpose, server-side scripting language created as an open-source project?in 1994 by programmer?Rasmus Lerdorf.?

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Large Businesses that Use PHP?

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PHP quickly became hugely popular and has been used for years by tech start-ups that went on to become successful giants in the industry, like Facebook, Lyft, Tumblr, to name a few.?

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1. Facebook?

A social media website and application with more than?1.49 billion active users, Facebook was developed in 2004 by both Zuckerberg and Moskowitz primarily using PHP. It has since taken advantage of PHP’s capability to generate dynamic content in mere seconds.?

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2. Wikipedia?

Perhaps one of the most visited public information sites, Wikipedia was once flailing in the dark corners of the Interweb. That is until it started using PHP as a programming language, along with others, as their database backend. Begun to quell increasing performance issues and accommodate features for growing traffic, it has since switched to PHP.?

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3. WordPress?

The largest?content management system, WordPress?uses PHP to interact with databases and fetch data. This allows millions of active daily users to create/use templates and drag/drop website UI components with little to no coding experience.?

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Why Your Small Business Should Use PHP, too??

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We will try to explain this bit in terms of the benefits businesses can derive from deploying PHP for its development needs, instead of highlighting its features. We will, of course, do the same by classifying them under these 3 broad categories. Read on.?

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Save Time- Being compatible with all operating systems and platforms- be it Solaris, Windows, Linux, UNIX, or Mac- it can be smoothly and consistently integrated with and run other applications and data quickly, without the need for rebuilding. This saves a lot of time on the development side of things which can be easily redeployed in working out other essential platform related requirements like identifying and fixing bugs, error codes, etc. This also gives the website builder more control over the content that they are trying to build and make the content more authoritative.?

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Save Efforts- Compared to other programming languages, PHP is?easy to learn, understand and code with. It can be easily linked to databases and makes communication, management and handling data more efficient and secure. Mainly used to make web development easy and automatically coded , PHP and its database connections solve the purpose of developing web applications end-to-end. A PHP framework enables the easy storage and usage of written lines of codes, allowing effortless connection with data.?

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Save Expenses- PHP was essentially built and developed as an open-source web language which has since been maintained like that by a team of PHP developers. This helped create a support group and library of data, extensions, modules, including documents like graphics and PDFs, etc. This also makes it free to download, install and use. Being compatible with all servers like Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others, the cost of building dynamic and user-friendly websites using PHP is relatively small.?