PHP - History, Introduction, Summary, Extensions and Frameworks

PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor By Royston Olivera Xoriant Solutions www.roystonolivera.com

Background and History
C not for Web
Very clunky to program
No pre-written code
PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language
Generic text processing language
Large number of built-in functions
PERL being PERL-centric
Embed HTML inside Perl script

Introducing PHP
PHP - Personal Home Page
PHP 3 - PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor
PHP 4 - The Zend Relationship and
Web Server Abstraction
PHP 5 - Language Maturity
Rasmus Lerdorf Zeev Suraski Andi Gutmans

Summarizing PHP
The HTML relationship
Interpreting versus Compiling
PHP is fast, capable, extendable, reliable
and advancing
When to and not to use PHP?

Extending PHP & Frameworks
PHP Extensions
Core Extensions
Bundled Extensions
PECL - PHP Extension Code Library
Third Party Extensions
DIY - Do It Yourself
Frameworks
CakePHP, PRADO, Symfony and Zend Framework

Future of PHP
Unicode
Namespace
APC – Alternate PHP Cache in the core
Function cleanup

Applications built using PHP
User-facing portion of Facebook, Wikipedia (Mediawiki), Yahoo!, MyYearbook and Tagged.
Significant number of Content Management Systems including Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal
Other Important Websites:
www.naukri.com
www.jeevansathi.com
www.shaadi.com
www.ibnlive.com
www.mtvindia.com
www.makaan.com
www.gaiaonline.com
www.education.com

Getting Started…
Download Apache and PHP
www.apache.org & www.php.net
XAMPP Package
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Traditional first program
<? echo “Hello World!” ; ?>
Extract Username & Domain from an Email ID
<? $email_id = “contact_us@isaac08.info” ;
list ( $username , $domain ) = explode( “@” , $email_id );
echo “Username is ” . $username . ” and Domain is ” . $domain ; ?>

PHP - History, Introduction, Summary, Extensions and Frameworks

by Royston Olivera on Sep 03, 2009

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