PHP, one of the most powerful Server side web technology, is spreading in web development circle like a forest fire. You can find trillions of PHP webpages over the internet. PHP evolves from C language, and provides the same functionality as the C. The great advantage of PHP over other web development technologies is that it is easy to learn, easy to manage and provide rapid development.
Well, PHP and C were pretty similar few years ago but slowly PHP is moving more towards the Java or C# paradigm, all the OOP stuff in PHP5 (and lots of new OOP functionality planned in PHP6)... What he meant was probably that PHP and C are similar languages - which is true. They are used differently though.
well, php is not a tool, it is a programming language and yes, it offers the same functionality as c language. What can you make in C (standard ANSII C/C++) and you can't make in php ?
Are you in marketing? I want you to quantify the above statements, plus I want the list of the trillions of PHP websites on the Internet for my reference. I will bet $ that I am more productive and can develop anything you can develop in PHP more rapidly using the Microsoft .NET platform and technologies.
They are all the same just a little different. The basics behind them are excatly the same they both evolve around each other. Ones just for microsoft and the other linux.
php is a server side , free available open source scripting language. it is easily embedded with HTML. it is object oriented and plateform independent.
PHP has many rapid development frameworks similar to .NET, too, for example Zend Framework or Symphony. So you can develop robust applications with PHP very fast if you use a good framework. Many people still use PHP the old way but that doesn't mean there hasn't been any progress since it started as a homemade scripting language. On the contrary, there has been massive progress made (just check differences between PHP4 and PHP5, also check upcoming release PHP6). PHP is also backed by a strong corporation and by huge community. Finally, PHP is platform independent, pretty much backward compatible (so you usually don't need to update your website for ages, even though there might already be better ways to code it, new recommended practices - but the old code will usually still work) and since PHP5 it has a solid OOP implementation.
Some large websites powered by PHP: Facebook, Yahoo Bookmarks, Digg, Sitepoint... That's just from top of my head, I've got a feeling I forgot few big ones.
PHP was created simply with the objective of creating dyanmic websites in mind. It isn't just a powerful tool, it is the tool if you want to create a non-static website, and it's free.
PHP follow an Architecture called Shared Nothing apart from Java and there is no need of garbage collection and resource closing etc. So even if you start a mysql connection and forget to close the connection it wont make any troubles in the program to work, its a security loop whole though
Definetely is powerful.Actually more than 85% of data driven sites are Php and MySQL based. But yeah Php alone with MySQL is meaningless.