PHP
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Important keywords when describing PHP

  • Practicality: From the very start, the PHP language was created with practicality in mind. Much of PHP’s early evolution was not the result of the explicit intention to improve the language itself, but rather to increase its utility to the user. The result is a minimalist language, in terms of what is required of the user, and in terms of the language’s syntactical requirements.

  • Power: Over 100 libraries are available, containing over 1000 functions, and a huge community adding more libraries every day.
  • Possibilities: PHP developers are rarely bound to any single implementation solution. Do you prefer a language that embraces functional programming? How about one that embraces the object-oriented paradigm? PHP offers comprehensive support for both.
  • Price: There are no usage or distribution costs associated with PHP.
Who are using PHP?
PHP is currently the most popular server-side web programming language. It runs 33,53% of the websites on the Internet. Its widespread use for web development can be attributed to the fact it boasts the largest open source community, simplicity and high performance.
Some of the most demanding, high traffic sites in the world are using PHP for their frontend. Some of them are: Yahoo, Wikipedia, Flickr, Facebook, Friendster, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto.

Content Management Systems

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to. One of the most popular free CMS systems based on PHP is Joomla.

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
  • Corporate Web sites or portals
  • Corporate intranets and extranets
  • Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
  • E-commerce, classifieds and online reservations
  • Government applications
  • Small business Web sites
  • Non-profit and organizational Web sites
  • Community-based portals
  • School and church Web sites
  • Personal or family homepages
Some of the more known users of Joomla is MTV Networks Quizilla, United Nations, LA Weekly, Harvard University, Citibank and Outdoor Photographer. Other CMS systems are Drupal, Ez Publish, Wordpress, Plone, Typo3, Mambo and MoinMoin.