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10 PHP Frameworks for developers to help build challenging web apps

1.  Symfony

Symfony

Symfony is a PHP framework for web projects. It allow web developers to build complex web applications easily.  This framework facilitates long-term maintenance and scalability by complying with standard development rules.

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HipHop Virtual Machine by Facebook to speed-up PHP

Most popular Social networking Site Facebook  has moved one step ahead at making the PHP programming language runs more quickly. Facebook has developed a PHP virtual machine, called HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) that can executes the PHP web programming language as much as 9 times as quickly as running PHP on large systems.

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Future of PHP

PHP is already popular, used in millions of domains (according to Netcraft), supported by most ISPs and used by household-name Web companies like Yahoo! The upcoming versions of PHP aim to add to this success by introducing new features that make PHP more usable in some cases and more secure in others. Are you ready for PHP V6? If you were upgrading tomorrow, would your scripts execute just fine or would you have work to do? (more…)

PHP Usage

PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded, scripting language which gives the user the power to create web pages ‘on the fly’ All the processing of the PHP script is carried out by the server (interpreted line by line), and the user’s browser receives the resulting HTML produced.
(In contrast, a client-side scripting language, like JavaScript, relies on the ability of the home user’s computer to be able to interpret the instructions) PHP has become the most popular server side language used for website creation.
Some of the reasons why this has become so widely used are…

  • It’s free to use
  • It’s open source, and as a result has developed to meet the needs of the web programmer
  • There is a large community and knowledge base
  • It’s cross platform (it can run on a windows or unix server)
  • It’s fast