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PHP is a server scripting language, and is a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. PHP is a widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft's ASP.
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and is a server-side programming language.
There are many reasons to use PHP for server side programming,
firstly it is a free language with no licensing fees so the cost of
using it is minimal.
A good benefit of using PHP is that it can interact with many
different database languages including MySQL. We work with MySQL at
Bluelinemedia since this is also a free language so it makes sense to
use PHP. Both PHP and MySQL are compatible with an Apache server which
is also free to license. PHP can also run on Windows, Linux and Unix
servers.
Due to all these languages being free it is cheap and easy to setup and create a website using PHP.
PHP also has very good online documentation with a good framework
of functions in place. This makes the language relatively easy to learn
and very well supported online. There are countless forums and
tutorials on various PHP methods and problems so it is usually very easy
to find help if you need it.
Due to PHP being so accessible and cheap to setup there are a lot of
people who know how to use the language which makes finding new
employees proficient in this language less challenging.
Those are the main reasons we use PHP