PHP has been consistently growing in popularity ever since it was first introduced in the mid 90s. A new report from Netcraft reveals that as of January 2013, as many as 244 million websites had been built through the use of PHP. This really is a staggering figure on considering that the Internet today consists of 630 million websites and nearly 40% of them owe their existence to PHP. It is not without any reason that PHP is preferred by so many web developers. SynapseIndia reviews this popularity as unprecedented. The following points will help readers understand why PHP development has become all the rage:
- First and foremost, PHP is open source, which means that the programming language can be used free of cost.
- All the leading content management systems of today like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are based on PHP. CMS too is growing in popularity with most website owners preferring to update their content on their own. Consequently, PHP will continue to serve as the most dominant web development tool of all.
- Web developers know that they will be in the majority if they master PHP. Little wonder then that the number of PHP developers is on the rise.
- Prominent e-commerce engines like Magento, Zencart and osCommerce use PHP.
- Netcraft has discovered that Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Magento, Zencart and osCommerce that all run on PHP have thus far been used in 32 million websites.
- The use of PHP is prominent amongst websites pertaining to industries like Business, Adult, Shopping, Technology, Entertainment, News, Social, Education, Games etc.
- The leading hosting providers that make use of PHP include Softlayer, GoDaddy, Hetzner, Rackspace, OVH, 1and1, HosGator, BlueHost, PEER 1 Hosting and Liquid Web.
- Facebook, one of the most popular social networking websites of our time, is completely based on PHP.
PHP's Growth Thus Far
The first version of PHP i.e. PHP 1 came out in 1995. It allowed developers to create guestbooks and form-based applications. PHP 2 was released two years later and it had built-in support for other features. By the time a year passed by, 1% of the websites on the Internet had started running on this programming language. It was the third version that was pretty similar to the latest release that is currently in use nowadays. PHP 3 was released in the year 1998 and as its language was different from that of its predecessors, it attracted a lot of developers.
The year 2000 saw the arrival of PHP 4, which had a lot more to offer in terms of functionality. For instance, PHP 4 supported more number of web servers. Netcraft discovered that by September 2001, 1.8 million sites across the Internet were running on PHP. The most recent version of PHP i.e. PHP 5 came out in 2004 and remains the most major release till date.
PHP web development today has really become a force to reckon with and it is becoming stronger by the day.
The first version of PHP i.e. PHP 1 came out in 1995. It allowed developers to create guestbooks and form-based applications. PHP 2 was released two years later and it had built-in support for other features. By the time a year passed by, 1% of the websites on the Internet had started running on this programming language. It was the third version that was pretty similar to the latest release that is currently in use nowadays. PHP 3 was released in the year 1998 and as its language was different from that of its predecessors, it attracted a lot of developers.
The year 2000 saw the arrival of PHP 4, which had a lot more to offer in terms of functionality. For instance, PHP 4 supported more number of web servers. Netcraft discovered that by September 2001, 1.8 million sites across the Internet were running on PHP. The most recent version of PHP i.e. PHP 5 came out in 2004 and remains the most major release till date.
PHP web development today has really become a force to reckon with and it is becoming stronger by the day.
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