Why PHP?
It started as a fast and simple scripting language that could work seamlessly with many other components.
In its eleventh year PHP has become a major player as a programming language and as a global platform language. PHP is ready for the big time...
PHP was designed for the Web; you have the ability to create dynamic web applications such as websites, intranets and extranets. You can develop highly complex e-commerce solutions, content management systems, mailing lists, search engines and social networking sites; in a word, anything you can imagine doing over the net.
PHP for business
PHP is portable on all of the major operating Systems like Windows, MAC and Linux.
PHP is capable of handling data from a wide range of data sources, taking that data and presenting it in numerous web friendly formats including HTML pages, graphs, spreadsheets, PDFs, XML data feeds and dynamically drawn images.
PHP facilitate interoperability. With PHP you have a single platform with which to incorporate and generate presentations of data obtained from such diverse technologies like LDAP, XML, Web services, Lotus Notes, SAP.
PHP solves integration issues on the web; it can directly connect with databases like Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL, directories, online payment systems and protocols, avoiding the high development costs of integrating existing applications and databases.
More benefits
Having a community of more than 4,500,000 developers and more than 20 million websites using this technology gives PHP stability and durability. It is also constantly evolving to serve the market need for faster, cheaper, better and secure.
PHP is simple, adaptable, works across platforms and most of all is non-binding. With PHP you are not dependent on a manufacturer to fix things that don't work, nor are you forced to pay for upgrades every year to get a working version.
PHP is extendable due to its modular system of extensions to interface with diverse libraries, such as encryption, graphics, XML and more.
PHP in action
PHP platform dominates the Internet and furthermore is not limited to pure Web architectures; with SOAP, COM and Java, PHP enables the deployment of service-oriented architectures.
Global companies like Cisco, Motorola, Unilever, Philips, Yahoo and Facebook, numerous governments, televisions, newspapers and banks who are currently using it demonstrate that PHP is successfully employed in enterprise level projects.