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This article will explain in detail what is the PHP programming language. The editor thinks it is very practical, so I share it with you as a reference. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

PHP itself is a simple and powerful language. The PHP language has core features such as powerful string and array processing capabilities, while greatly improving support for object-oriented programming (PHP5 and above). By using standard and optional extension modules, PHP applications can connect to dozens of databases, drawings, create PDF files, and create parsing XML files, such as MySQL or Oracle. You can also write your own PHP extension module in C language. For example, provide an interface function for PHP in an existing code base. You can also run PHP under Windows, use COM to control other Windows applications such as Word and Excel, or use ODBC to connect to the database.

In China, PHP has been neck and neck with Microsoft's ASP, and it is a commonly used network programming language. ASP3.0 has long been abandoned by Microsoft, no longer updated, some people may think: PHP should also be a thing of the past, right?

However, on the contrary, PHP is not only developing at a high speed, leaving ASP far behind, but also gradually becoming the most widely used and popular language on the Internet.

According to the survey of Netcraft website (http://www.netcraft.com), there are more than 23 million web servers using PHP in the world (accounting for the top 1/4 of global websites, and the number of global websites, including all static websites, is about 100 million). Judging from the data of Netcraft, PHP has developed rapidly and has a strong upward momentum since the beginning of this year. According to the TIOBE Global ranking of programming languages (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm), PHP ranks firmly in the top five.

According to the data provided by note 1 of "Programming PHP", the number of developers using PHP in the world has reached 2.5 million. The development team of the PHP language itself is also very large, with more than 450 developers who have submitted more than 1 million lines of code through CVS. The PHP community is the most active development community in the world, where tens of millions of people share code, promote the PHP language, help each other, and build many well-known projects. In fact, in the world

The "LAMP" (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP) technology combination is already the WEB technology combination of today. Because these software are free, anyone using LAMP can set up their own personal or commercial site completely free of charge. Moreover, the software is open source, so you can easily download the code written by others and install it on your own website.

Of course, PHP can not only run on Linux, in fact, PHP supports all the mainstream operating systems, such as Windows, various Unix systems and so on. Most Chinese netizens use the Windows operating system, and even the server market is dominated by Windows systems (which is rare in the world). PHP works well with the IIS server on the Windows operating system. Microsoft also recently signed an agreement with Zend to increase support for PHP in Windows Server 2003 and its future versions of Longhorn.

Simplicity is what makes PHP so successful. Simplicity equals a small amount of code and a short development cycle. Developers and companies can often use PHP to complete projects in a short period of time, while it can take several times in other languages.

As Google's Adam Bosworth said:

"every day in the world of programming, there is an unrecognized war. It is a war between ordinary people and computer scientists. It is a war between people who want to write code in a simple, flexible, human way and people who want to write code in a clean, clear and correct way. It is a war between PHP and C++/Java."

The future of PHP is very bright, and currently major platform vendors such as MicroSoft, IBM, Oracle, MySQL, Intel and RedHat all recognize and support PHP. Zend has teamed up with several leading companies and members of the PHP community to launch a new collaborative project Collaboration Project, which aims to take PHP to a new level by creating an enterprise-level, standardized Web application development framework and development environment. The main contents of the project are Zend PHP Framework and Eclipse PHP IDE.

Although there is a huge gap in the penetration rate of PHP between China and developed European and American countries, with the new round of Internet craze and the popularity of open source culture, PHP will develop rapidly in China. We believe that more people will understand open source and PHP,PHP will play a more important role in China's Internet construction.

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