PHP 3

PHP, at last, brings the touch of elegance to webpage design. No, I'm not talking about making the front end of your page look pretty - loads of people are already a dab hand at that (Just look at the Ciao.Com page layout) - I'm talking about the guts of the page. I am talking about the unseen wizardry that will either sink or float your page. PHP has style. It is a real programming language but it does not get into the dots, blobs and squiggles that some of the older (Perl, for example) languages can descend into. On the same token, PHP is not just a set of extra tabs that closely mimic HTML (Some would say that ColdFusion is just that). You can do a lot with ...  Read the complete review

I'm still fairly new to PHP having only been using it for 4 the last 4 months, but I've gained a lot of respect for the language. My experience with it is on unix machines using the Apache server as part of a large professional Web Site. Though we aren't using too much of it yet in our live pages it's fast becoming the first language we consider when we need a light weight, simple solution for some dynamic pages. PHP is also available for Windows based servers and a number of servers other than apache. It's comparable with ASP on the Windows platform, but from my limited experience of ASP I find PHP easier and more stable. PHP 3 has a ...  Read the complete review

I honestly can't think of anything computer related that has been more valuable to me than PHP. Price: A major factor in what I choose to use, being on benefits. And the best price, in my oh-so-humble opinion, is free! Costs naff-all but a little time and effort to set up and is *so* worth it. If you had to pay for PHP, and the price was sensible and affordable I would probably pay, and I don't pay if I can get something free that does the job. Installation/setup: Takes a little time and effort, you need to read the readme files carefully and follow the instructions, but I managed without too much trouble and have never needed to wade in and ...  Read the complete review

.... and no mistaking. I've been using PHP for quite some time now and every single project I run on a web server uses it to some degree. Even for something as simple as dynamic page generation it makes the whole process a breeze. Databse connectivity is ample and no doubt you'll be complaining about support it has that you don't need. The product itself is freeware and runs on WIN32 as well as many UNIX variants. It integrates superbly with the Apache web server and can provide some excellent extensions to what is already a very stable platform. Class support is provided and with sites such as phpclasses out there ...  Read the complete review

I agree with other reviews this is definently the best server side script that there is, the syntax is easy and you can get a lot off support for it online. Including php's website which has a library off extensive knowlage on the functions which is more then i can say for microsofts asp language, its completely free which i love and i can sit there for hours writting a website with no problems, also easy to install, i recommend this language by far comparing it to the rest off the server side ...  Read the complete review