Why PHP for Web Development?

Piyumi Premathilake
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2 min readJul 14, 2022

Reasons why PHP is still so important for web development.

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With businesses becoming online, it is important to have user-friendly and interactive websites to catch the attention of the customers. Of course, it is more important to have websites for any of the businesses nowadays. So, most companies use PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) to develop their websites.

The first impression is very important for websites as well. Having an interactive website increases sales, brand awareness, save money on advertising and builds trust with your audience.

Did You Know?

PHP is used by nearly 80% of all websites around the world powering some major platforms like Facebook, WordPress, Wikipedia & Zoom.

The market position of PHP in terms of popularity and traffic compared to the most popular server-side programming languages.

PHP is an open-source (Freely available to everyone) server-side (from writing to implementing everything is done on the server-side) scripting language embedded in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) used specifically for website development.

Advantages of using PHP for web development -

  1. Websites function faster.
  2. Create dynamic web pages — creating dynamic web pages make the website very interactive.
  3. Provides security encryption.
  4. Cost-efficient language.
  5. Compatibility.
  6. Platform independent — PHP applications can run on any platform.

Features of PHP -

  1. Simple — since PHP is simple, it is easy to learn.
  2. Highly Flexible — changes can be done without the developer’s intervention.
  3. Platform Independent — runs on any platform. That means it’s versatile. It can be used on Mac OS, Windows, Linux and supports most web browsers.
  4. Interpreted — does not need to be compiled.
  5. Fast — loads websites faster.
  6. Open Source — PHP is free to use.
  7. Secure — PHP frameworks provide security to websites like Encryption.
  8. Large PHP community — PHP has grown into a large, stable and helpful community over the years.

Conclusion: This is why developing dynamic websites using PHP is considered as the best option.

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Piyumi Premathilake
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