PHP: Which way to go? _PHP Tutorial

PHP4: Behind the Miracle
In 1995, Rasmus was using PHP to write his personal homepage; today, PHP has become a popular scripting language around the world. More and more sites choose to use PHP. Even Yahoo gave up its own scripts and Use PHP to support its website instead. It can be said that PHP is a miracle. I have always believed that behind every miracle there is a reason. Now, let us look at the success of PHP through this miracle.
1 Simple and easy to use
PHP has a very low entry barrier, and its requirements for users are minimal. For those who have learned C language, it takes almost no time to use PHP. Their syntax is so similar that I often wonder if adding a $ before a C language variable can change it to PHP. This has led a large number of C programmers to choose PHP for web scripting. In addition, compared to ASP's component system and Java's huge class library, PHP's function library is much easier to learn. In terms of programming style, PHP is even more free. You can use N styles to write your scripts. These features make PHP a preferred language for beginners. Seizing the beginner market is an important strategy. Just as anyone has a vivid memory of their first love, people often have deep feelings for the language they first learn. Even if I later grow up and switch to another language, I will still always remember the language I first learned. At this point, PHP does an excellent job.
2 Proper tailoring
The PHP development team is a group of people who know the network best, and they know very well what users want. PHP is to be an excellent network scripting language, and it is just to be a network scripting language. The function set provided by PHP is quite powerful in the network area, and the focus is on network applications. Features such as component-less file upload in PHP and support for multiple databases all demonstrate this characteristic. By the way, PHP even supports ACCESS databases. Focus makes PHP perform extremely well on the Internet. Only when you lose can you gain.
3 Strong support
PHP has strong support from the OpenSource community, and there are tens of thousands of open source codes on the Internet. You can integrate several existing programs to implement your application, or you can analyze master-level code to improve it. PHP also has many extension projects to enhance PHP's functionality in certain aspects. For example, PEAR focuses on programming standardization and code reuse, Smarty provides compilable template technology, and even GTK develops desktop programs.
After analyzing these reasons, we can see that the success of PHP is due to the strategic vision of the PHP development team. PHP provides a minimum working set, allowing users to efficiently complete the applications they need in the simplest way. This is exactly what beginners need. Then it provides solutions in all aspects through convenient extensions, so that you only need to learn the things in the field you want to use. When you cover more and more fields, your level will also improve. When you are familiar with most fields, you will look back and find that you have reached the mountainside without realizing it. PHP also provides us with a learning attitude.
ASP.net＋J2EE: Storm is coming
The wave of innovation in the network scripting industry was first initiated by Microsoft's ASP.net. In ASP.net, there is a very attractive thing - event-driven mechanism. This is a very common concept in desktop programming, but in script programming, event driving means encapsulating server-side scripts (such as PHP, JSP, ASP) and client-side scripts (such as JavaScript and VbScript) to make them work together. In this way, programming will become extremely convenient. Another advantage of being event-driven in the .net environment is that you don’t even need any server-side scripts or client-side scripts, because in ASP.net, you can directly use languages ​​like C# - not even $ add. This paves the way for traditional programmers in the MS camp to switch to network development. At the same time, it also makes PHP suffer a big blow in the beginner market. It is foreseeable that the number of traditional programmers turning to PHP will be greatly reduced in the future. However, the biggest problem with ASP.net is that it can only run on Windows, and now mainland China is vigorously developing Linux. This makes PHP's living space seem a bit wider, but - let's take a look at Java.