Open Source:
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source programming language it is implemented on the server side. As it is an open source user can easily access the necessary scripting code from the web page and may use that code as reference for further parallel website development.
Easy To Develop:
The user can develop dynamic web sites (User may able to change the content of website from Admin Panel) easily as the user may able to integrate many tools, CMS & other scripting languages such as Magento, Joomala, WordPress, osCommerce, Core PHP, Dhrupal, Tank CMS, AJAX, JQuery, XML, JavaScript, etc. PHP is also compatible with many OS (Operating System) like UNIX, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc.
Ease Manageable:
The user can able to manage customized website effortlessly and also able to increase the level of development with the help of some popular PHP frameworks such as Cake PHP, Laravel, Phalcon, Symfony, Code Igniter, Yii, Aura, Zend, Flight, Kohana, etc.
Cost Effective:
The PHP development process is cheap compared to other programming languages. As it is an open source user can develop website applications without any cost. The user does not require purchasing any license for the server to implement PHP (Instance Apache etc.).
Database Flexibility:
PHP website development is quite flexible towards the database connectivity; user may prefer to synchronize one of the databases as backend such as MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, SQLite, etc. PHP/My SQL are one most adopted combination to develop ecommerce applications such as Content Management System (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) etc.
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