Multiple Applications & Tools of PHP Web Development by Manish Rawat

Have you ever wondered why Hypertext Preprocessor, or in other words PHP programming language is the most widely used web scripting language? It is a server side language that facilitates dynamically driven websites. Whereas, HTML is translated into the byte code and the resulting byte code into the computer screen text or image. PHP is one of the finest technologies for network applications covered across database.

Thus, it becomes very important for us to enlist the multiple applications of PHP web development—

— Server Side Language:

PHP is a server side language that means that it has an in-built interpreter that interprets PHP code into the HTML code for a browser. You don't need to add anything to your browser or computer, as the interpreter does most of the work.

— Free:

Since PHP is an open source language, you don't have to pay dollars to purchase.

—Easy to Learn:

Other than high level programming languages, PHP is far simple and easy to learn.

— Fast:

PHP engine makes PHP fast and better.

— PHP, a threat to others:

PHP is a very popular as it is coming as a severe threat towards .Net and Java within the additional field of application development.

— Versatile:

PHP is supported on almost all the servers and runs major operating systems like Mac, Linux, windows, etc.

— Quick:

PHP is efficient and fast due to its fast processing speed.

— PHP Frameworks:

To make the web applications process easier, to be able to reuse the already developed code, and stability, it becomes really important for a developer to choose the right framework. And PHP frameworks are the latest buzz, for example, Zend framework, Symfony, and CakePHP.

— Cost effective: It is the most suited for small businesses as it is very cost effective and gives better performance.

PHP development diminishes the allowance of code that is necessary for web applications with an efficient turnaround time. Here come s the question of the various tools that prove to be useful in web development—

— Debugging Tools:

Webgrind (code.google.com), Xdebug (xdebug.org)

— Security Tools

Securimage, Scavenger and PHP-IDS

— Testing and Optimisation Tools

SimpleTest (simpletest.org), Selenium (selenium-rc.openqa.org), PHP_CodeSniffer (matrix.squiz.net/developer/tools/php_cs)

— Useful Extensions, Utilities and Classes

HTML Purifier, htmlSQL, PHPMathPublisher, and phpMyAdmin

And the list is endless, which links you to some of the most useful PHP tools in web development.

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