PHP: features, benefits and frameworks

What characterizes PHP from other languages?

Although today it is also widely used for console applications, PHP was born and grew for web development. It has a large community and is known for being pretty straightforward.

The vast majority of websites worldwide are developed with PHP on the back end. This is so, because WordPress has a vast market share of the world web and has many templates that allow you to create a fast and functional website.

What are the benefits of using PHP?

• It evolves at a more than satisfactory rate compared to other technologies.
• It is characterized by being easy, powerful and professional.
• It has excellent frameworks for developing on the web, such as Laravel and Symfony.
• It follows exemplary development practices.
• It has a huge and very active community.
• It has a variety of tools for developers.
• It has noticeably improved performance since version 7.
• It supports an infinite amount of databases and requests, it is very fast.
• Being open source, it allows anyone to apply modifications to improve it.

When to choose PHP?

This language is always a good option for any of the following situations:

• If you need to launch a website fast.
• For ecommerce, with a CMS platform, such as Prestashop or Magento.
• If you require web development to create a startup.
• For console application development.
• To build an enterprise application.
• If you need a forum, think about the PHPBB application.
• To develop dynamic web pages or Rest services.
• If you would like to work on services or web applications, on the back end side.

Keep reading here and know the most importants frameworks of PHP.