PHP

PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. PHP is one of the most popular programming and scripting language used for rapid web development. PHP is most widely used for RIA (Rich Internet Application) development. It’s used for both small scale and enterprise level applications.

Advantages

PHP’s popularity has been increased since last decade because of its open source model, platform independence, economical solutions and portability. Main advantages of PHP in web application development are described as below:

  • Being Open Source and free, it reduces cost of development and maintenance.
  • It has great availability as millions of web hosting providers all around the world provide support for PHP.
  • It can be used on multiple platforms like Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Solaris etc. An application developed on one platform can easily be ported to other platforms without any additional effort.
  • It provides excellent support for multiple databases like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server etc.
  • It supports variety of web servers like Apache, IIS, Lighttpd etc.
  • It provides excellent support for numerous web standards and protocols like XML, SOAP, POP3, FTP, IMAP, Java etc.
  • It’s very secure in web services or any server to server communication with support of OpenSSL.
  • It’s economical as it consumes less resource.
  • Execution is very fast.
  • There is a huge PHP developer community worldwide, so technical support is handy.
  • There are lots of Open Source MVC frameworks like Zend Framework, Symfony, CakePHP are available for PHP for rapid application development.
  • There are lots of Open Source applications written in PHP for various purposes. For example, CMS like Drupal, Joomla, WordPress etc.; E-Commerce platforms like Magento Commerce, Zen Cart, OsCommerce etc.
  • Implemented Zend Engine 2 with new Object Model which supports new Object Oriented features and performance improvements
  • Built in SOAP support
  • Enhanced MySQL support with MySQLi extension
  • Completely redeveloped XML support using libxml2 library
  • New SimpleXML extension for easy access and manipulation of XML elements
  • Introduced SPL library (Standard PHP Library)
  • Enhanced database support with PDO library
  • Added support for namespaces
  • Added support for late static binding
  • Lambda functions and Closures
  • Improved Windows support with VC9 binaries
  • Improved MySQL integration with PHP native mysqlnd library
  • Performance improvements

Differences in previous and current version

Major Differences (From PHP 4 to PHP 5)

  • Implemented Zend Engine 2 with new Object Model which supports new Object Oriented features and performance improvements
  • Built in SOAP support
  • Enhanced MySQL support with MySQLi extension
  • Completely redeveloped XML support using libxml2 library
  • New SimpleXML extension for easy access and manipulation of XML elements
  • Introduced SPL library (Standard PHP Library)
  • Enhanced database support with PDO library

Latest improvements in PHP 5.3

  • Added support for namespaces
  • Added support for late static binding
  • Lambda functions and Closures
  • Improved Windows support with VC9 binaries
  • Improved MySQL integration with PHP native mysqlnd library
  • Performance improvements

Our Expertise

We have very experienced PHP developers having experience in different kind of web applications who have experience in development of web applications of Social networking, E-Commerce, Community Portals etc.

We have knowledge and expertise in PHP based open source applications, frameworks and CMS like Zend Framework, Symfony, CakePHP, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, MagentoComerce, OsCommerce, Zen Cart, PHPBB etc.

We have expertise not only in developing applications with PHP but also making them compatible with other systems. For example, integrating an E-Commerce application with accounting system, using services like Google Data API, Yahoo API, Amazon API or other SOAP or XML-RPC based web services with PHP. We also have expertise in integrating various payment gateways like PayPal, WorldPay etc.

Future Growth

Zend, the company behind PHP is working on latest syntactic structure of programming language to make it as simple as possible with more and more usefulness. There are lots of improvements in performance in last major version PHP 5 and it is being improved more and more with successive minor versions.

The next minor or major release of PHP would support more syntactic features like Traits and Grafts which would make the language to represent the programing entities in more realistic manner. Next major version of PHP (PHP 6) is planned to be released with unicodesupport which meansprogramming elements can be defined not only with pure English characters but unicode characters are also supported.

Research and Development

Our team is always upbeat with latest improvements or changes as well as upcoming versions of PHP. We encourage our team to spend certain amount of time to research around latest technologies. We regularly follow the blogs and articles written by experts around the world and discover latest techniques for improving PHP application with performance, security and flexibility.

Our developers do regular research on programming patterns and techniques for making PHP application flexible for future expansion. We follow the standards recommended by the PHP experts around the world.

Recent Development

We have recently developed and delivered various kind of application with PHP like E-Commerce applications with Magento, Real Estate portal with Zend Framework, Content based websites with Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. We are currently developing our Gujarati community portal: Gujjubhai.com and E-Commerce websites: IndianArtisan.com and ShopTunnel.com