PHP
One of the interesting diversions
on the PHP Homesite is the following rhetorical
question asked midway down the left navigation column
- "Ever wondered how popular PHP is? See the
NetCraft Survey." And in a little boasting
not frequently found on Open Source sites, following
the link produces a NetCraft graph showing PHP usage
on websites worldwide growing from less than 200,000
in January 1999 to over 13 million in August 2003.
1)PHP is a server-side interpreter
which is Open Source and free;
2)So is a growing number of PHP web applications
- start at PHP Resources;
3)PHP provides familiar syntax to C, Perl and Java
developers;
4)PHP has fast connections to popular databases;
5)PHP has fast native connections to the Open Source
MySQL database;
6)PHP runs reliably on Windows, Linux and Mac servers
and clients;
7)PHP web pages run reliably on all the popular
browsers.
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