Unapologetically, my objective in this article is to show that PHP and MySQL are both mature and widespread technologies that can be considered a primary web-application platform, not just an alternative to ASP, JSP, Cold Fusion and a host of other web-app scripting solutions out there.
I'm developing this article in an evolutionary way and will add as I see trends, get new data, have new ideas for how to discover the case for PHP.
According to some stats, there are over 12,000,000 sites on the internet now running PHP. So, what's behind that and why is it so popular? |
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With the same features as ASP and JSP, PHP is the fastest growing Apache add-on....as well as .asp and .jsp (and .htm/html for ordinary
Web pages), another file extension is becoming increasingly common - .php....As another Netcraft survey shows, there are currently around 700,000 sites using it. |
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In this article, you will learn about the general development features of Apache, as well as two particular environments that lend themselves to serious applications. The first, PHP, is a strong language for database-related functions. The second, mod_perl, moves Perl scripting into the high-performance arena and extends what you can do with it. |
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