PHP is amongst the most used for Web Development

[Mashiane]

Hi there

I recently posted The Ultimate File Management PHP Scripts and was just wondering about the use of PHP.

I came across this..

The Enduring Importance of PHP in Web Development: 8 Reasons Why It Still Matters

An article on why PHP is still important for web development

www.jobsity.com

Its very interesting...

 

[LucaMs]

Note that those 8 reasons also apply to the top ranked, JavaScript.


BTW, in that page:

Though these days it is not considered the sexiest of languages

seems to be talking about B4X; maybe you should change the B4X (Anywhere Software) logo to a beautiful half-naked girl ?

 

[alwaysbusy]

not considered the sexiest of languages

and not the fastest or easiest either

 

[Star-Dust]

and not the fastest or easiest either

it depends ... sex(iest) for some is synonymous with fast .... Not knowing the author of the article I would not exclude this possibility. Same for easy

 

[LucaMs]

Anyway, the fundamental reason why JavaScript, HTML + CSS are at the top of the rankings, I suppose is because even today more websites are created rather than mobile apps or desktop applications.

When B4X is even more unified (single IDE-Designer) and PWAs can be developed directly in the same way, this will be the most used (and sexiest ?) language.

 

[aeric]

In my opinion, the article is more focus on the languages required by the job market. I don’t know about other countries, Ruby is less demand here compared to ASP.NET C#.
The main reason I can think of why PHP is still a preferred language is because it is bundled in shared hosting. Many other languages are not installed as default and required a terminal access to install some additional packages before they are useful. There are no CPanel built to manage Python virtual environment as I know. Other than CPanel for PHP, the other one is Plesk for .NET web application that is possible to run in low cost shared hosting. Some shared hosting is free to use and this is an advantage for student to use for their projects. Java hosting is even less available and normally used by some bigger enterprises. Back to the days where VPS was not cheap. The second reason is Apache web server is usually bundled in shared hosting and it is also an open source project. The third reason is PHP apps (common apps in the market) are easy to install. You just need to download and unzip to a location then run install.php or index.php and the app is ready to install with a wizard.

 

[KMatle]

PHP is supported without any extra costs on any (even cheap hosted) server. For me the reason #1 to use it.