The story of PHP, having its roots somewhere in
1994, is a successful one. Among the factors that led to its success are the following:
??? PHP is free; especially when combined with Linux server software, PHP can prove to be
a very cost-efficient technology to build dynamic web content.
??? PHP has a shorter learning curve than other scripting languages.
??? The PHP community is agile. Many useful helper libraries or new versions of the existing
libraries are being developed (such as those you can find in the PEAR repository or
at http://www.phpclasses.org), and new features are added frequently.
??? PHP works very well on a variety of web servers and operating systems (Unix-like platforms,
Windows, and Mac OS).
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However, PHP is not the only server-side scripting language around for creating dynamic
web pages. Among its most popular competitors are JavaServer Pages (JSP), Perl, ColdFusion,
and ASP.NET. Among these technologies are many differences but also some fundamental
similarities. For example, pages written with any of these technologies are composed of basic
HTML, which draws the static part of the page (the template), and code that generates the
dynamic part.
?– Note You might want to check out Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005(Cristian Darie and
Karli Watson. Apress, 2005.
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