Features of PHP

Features Of PHP

 
1.Loosely Typed Language – PHP supports variable usage without declaring its data type. It will be  taken at the time of the execution based on the type of data it has on its value.

2.Cross Platform Compatibility – It is used to create the desktop application by using advanced PHP features.

3.variable variables – PHP allows changing the variable name dynamically by using variable variables.

4.Real-Time Access Monitoring – PHP provides access logging by creating the summary of recent accesses for the user.

5.Magic Method – PHP has built in methods starts with __ (double underscore). These methods can’t be called directly. Rather, it will be called on the event basis. For example, __clone() will be called, when the clone keyword is used.

6.Error Reporting – It has some predefined error reporting constants to generate a warning or error notice. For example, when E_STRICT is enabled, a warning about deprecated methods will be generated.

7.Extended Regular Expression – PHP provides REGEX methods with extensive parsing and pattern matching mechanism with remarkable speed.

8.nowdocs and heredocs String – PHP provides the nowdocs and heredocs properties are used to delimit some block of context. nowdocs and heredocs are same except the context in the heredocs allow variable parsing.

9.Traits – PHP is a single inheritance language. The traits concept is used to cover inheritance limitation and support inheritance at multiple levels.

Advantage of PHP

Open Source
 
PHP is freely available for use. The community of open source PHP developers provides technical support and is constantly improving updating the core PHP functionalities. PHP is available at free of cost under PHP General Public License and most of its associative required software’s like MySQL, Text Editors and Apache Server are also freely available, so it proves very cost effective for the developers.

Cross-Platform

PHP provides high compatibility with leading operating systems and web servers such as thereby enabling it to be easily deployed across several different platforms. PHP scripts can run across operating systems such as Linux, Windows, Solaris, OpenBSD, Mac OSX etc and also provide support for all major web servers such as Apache, IIS, iPlanet etc.

Power

Several web tasks can now be easily perform using PHP. For example now we can develop from small websites to giant business and organizational websites, informative forums, chatting platforms, CRM solutions, e-commerce shopping carts, community websites, e-business, shopping carts and gigantic database driven sites.

User Friendly
 
Designed in a user friendly manner, PHP gives more flexibility than C, C++ and ASP and overall helps in increasing traffic to the site.

Quick
 
PHP is designed to work well with the web, and so things like accessing the GET and POST and working with HTML and URLs are built-ins in the PHP language. This makes it really concise and straightforward to make a website.

Extensions
 
Being an open source language, a large number of libraries and extensions, to extend its core functionalities, are available for download. The source code of PHP can be modified to include custom created extensions and components thereby increasing its extensibility.

Easy Deployment
 
There are many hosting companies that will, for a few dollars a month, give you a server running PHP so you can make a website really easily.

Automatically Refreshes
 
Nowadays developing dynamic websites are in the huge demand due to its specific characteristics like it automatically refreshes and does not need to make much changes manually.

Community Support
 
A huge advantage that PHP offers is its community. If you are looking for a particular script, chances are another user has already created something similar. Check within the PHP
community for availability. Likewise, if you have created a function that others might enjoy, be sure to post the code for others.

Other Tools
 
If you need to access other web based tools like Google maps (which is always advisable for a business website), or any other, PHP makes it easy to access.

Security
 
PHP offers security as well that helps prevent malicious attacks. These security levels can be adjusted in the .ini file.

Talent Availability
 
You can hire PHP programmers more easily than any other language programmers since so many people know the language.