If you are deciding which web programming language might be the best to learn, you might want to consider learning PHP programming.
PHP is a very popular scripting language which was especially developed for web-based applications. PHP programmers can put code directly into their HTML markup, allowing dynamic PHP based dynamic web sites to be created quickly and easily, with low over-head and training costs to programmers.
Perhaps because of how well tailored PHP is to the Internet, according to a March 1, 2005 survey by Internet security consultants Securityspace.com, PHP is the most commonly installed module on the popular apache web server. It is installed on 54% of the surveyed apache web servers and experienced a 11.73% growth rate since the previous month.
In addition to being widely installed and popular, PHP runs scripts server side, allowing greater compatibility with web site visitors who may run various browsers with a wide array of plug-ins and functionalities disabled or not installed.
Learning PHP programming is also easier than many languages. If you have any experience with C++, C, or Java programming, PHP should come fairly naturally to you. Even if you do not have any programming experience, short courses in PHP programming should be sufficient to get you up and running quickly.
Due to the widespread popularity of PHP, a great deal of ready-made scripts and programs are already complete and ready to implement in your web project. Additionally, the open-source nature of PHP allows the user who is familiar with C based programming languages to add extensions and capability to this versatile language.
# posted by Sarah Clark @ 9:47 PM
