Web 2 Applications In Php: Presentation By

Web 2 Applications in PHP

Presentation by: DMW Technologies (P) Limited SCO 106, Top Floor, Sector 40-C Chandigarh

What is PHP? •

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

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PHP has a very high level of maturity.

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PHP is innovative and new generation programming language.

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PHP connects technologies and can help you develop "future-proof" systems.

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PHP runs on one-third of all worldwide web servers and has a strong community of 4,5 million international developers .

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PHP is widely used in enterprises all over the world - and not only for managing web sites.

History of PHP •

1994 - Written by Rasmus Lerdorf

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1997 - Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans

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1998 - PHP 3

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2000 - PHP 4

– Rewrote parser – PHP 2

– Still being developed – Version 4.4.7 - Oct. 2007

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2004 - PHP 5 – Still being developed

Why PHP? Low Learning Curve

Easy Integration into Heterogeneous Environments

Robust, Multi-Platform, High-Performance, Scalable, Secure

Vibrant Community

Rapid Development

Run an Agile Business

Proven Deployment

PHP Status on Internet Web Server Popularity SunONE 1%

Zeus 1%

Apache Modules Popularity (%) 60

Others 6%

50 40 30 20

IIS 22%

10

Apache 70%

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mod_perl

PHP

mod_python

PHP: Programming Language of the Year 2004 TIOBE Programming Community Index, December 2008

“PHP has earned the title ‘Programming Language of the Year 2004’ with a positive delta of more than 3 percent within 1 year. Then came PHP5 and rest is history…

Source: http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

PHP Momentum

What all can you develop in PHP? •

Desktop applications: PHP is probably not the very best language to create a

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Server-side scripting: This is an important target field for PHP. You need three

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Command line scripting: You can make a PHP script to run it without any server

desktop application with a graphical user interface, but if you know PHP very well, and would like to use some advanced PHP features in your client-side applications you can also use PHP-GTK to write such programs. You also have the ability to write cross-platform applications this way. things to make this work. The PHP parser (CGI or server module), a webserver and a web browser. You need to run the webserver, with a connected PHP installation. You can access the PHP program output with a web browser, viewing the PHP page through the server. All these can run on your home machine if you are just experimenting with PHP programming. or browser. You only need the PHP parser to use it this way. This type of usage is ideal for scripts regularly executed using cron (on *nix or Linux) or Task Scheduler (on Windows). These scripts can also be used for simple text processing tasks.

What all can you develop in PHP? •

About our Training • • • • • • • •

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