About PHP

In this era of growing popularity of online shopping, the necessity of creative web designs and development ideas has been on the rise. Business owners are now more interested towards shifting their business to a new level through interactive websites, sites that allow their customers to directly interact with them. It’s a new era of social media where people decide what products to buy and which are to dump in their list of rejection by following others reviews and recommendations about the products  given on various forums, facebook, twitter etc. So a beautifully designed and interactive web site is all you need to give it a go!

Undoubtedly PHP is now the most popular programing language to achieve an outstanding result, with PHP one can build up chat softwares, dynamic websites, various apps and a whole lot of things. PHP is an server side scripting language that has opened a new door to infinite possibilities. This could be integrated into java, .Net and for open source development like magento, joomla etc.

The applicability of PHP doesn’t end here, and can be extended to various web portal development like B2B portal,B2c portals etc, today it doesn’t matter whether your business is big or small..if you can manage your online business profile in a tactical way, you are bound to make a profit out of it.

Now that you know about the accomplishments you can have with PHP, let us dig a little deeper into the subject-

1.Zend development

2.Cake PHP

3.Web app development

4. Ecommerce solution

PHP was first publicly introduced in 1994, formerly it had to compete with ASP & other similar languages, however with time it gained a vast popularity and currently there are more than 20 million websites and one million web servers integrated with PHP. The latest version of this language(PHP5) is embedded with more features like improved support for object oriented programming, data object extensions etc.

Tips for effective PHP development:

Effective coding sense- Simple and effective coding is an effective way of accomplishing successful PHP development, the fact is that the larger is a code, bigger is the chance of getting errors & mistakes.

Using updated text editors- It’s a common practice to use notepad for writing all the codes, now it’s important to use latest versions of text editors in order to avoid errors & also for doing it efficiently within a short time.

Time management- Time is a valuable asset and you must have an idea about how to use it efficiently. One way is to saving the script language you have written for a project, perhaps you can use this code (written for a specific function) in your future projects as well.

Using of framework-  PHP frameworks are efficient for reducing the effort for PHP development, frameworks like cakePHP, Zend, Kohanaetc are widely in use today. By using these, one can get an efficient & time saving output.

When it’s about PHP development, one must make sure to tighten the security enough by guarding the session data, file system, cross site request forgeries etc. Security is the key to a successful PHP development.