The Aspect of Website Development in PHP and the Popular Frameworks

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is the most popular platform to design and develop websites. Actually, it is the most powerful tool to design dynamic and interactive web pages. Here are a few crucial points regarding this powerful application.

ü  It is an open source scripting language; it comes for free

ü  PHP scripts are executed on server machines

ü  Apart from generating dynamic web pages, it can create, open, read, write, close, delete files on server

ü  It can collect, encrypt, append, modify and delete data in an existing database

ü  Moreover, it can run smoothly on various platforms, including Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, etc.

ü  PHP supports a wide range of databases

Because of all these great advantages a large number of PHP website development services prefer various PHP development frameworks. Here is a brief discussion of three the most robust PHP development frameworks.

Code Igniter

It is a robust framework having a small footprint. This version is preferred by those developers who build simple, yet elegant online applications. It is most ideal to work upon if one wants

·         a framework with small footprint     

·         clear and thorough documentation

·         broad compatibility with standard hosting and

·         nearly zero configuration, etc.

Zend

It is another popular framework in PHP, having a high fan-following. Reasons behind its popularity are many and as such, here are some of the most relevant factors that contribute to its huge popularity.

·         Zend can be implemented with modular approach. Each of the building blocks in this framework can be used separately, piece by piece.

·         Moreover, these can be combined together with other applications or frameworks.

·         It provides a high level of security, thanks to a wide array of cryptographic and other dependable coding elements.

·         Zend is pretty flexible; it smartly meets customized requirements of each user.

·         It has a vast user base and as such, seeking help from the community is most easy.

·        Above everything else, this entity possesses an excellent track record of performance.

Cake PHP

It is another trustworthy PHP framework having huge popularity. There are several genuine factors behind its rise to prominence among the fraternity of web developers. Here is quick summation of the advantages it offers.

·         Most importantly, this framework helps in delivering outputs pretty fast.

·       Interestingly, this one does not have the complicated XML or YAML files. All it requires from a user is to set up a database and one can start baking cakes right away!

·         Easy license procuring facility that it offers, thanks to MIT, Cake PHP is the obvious choice in designing almost all commercial applications.

·       It comes with a wide range of in-built facilities, including translation, database access, validation and authentication, caching and much more.

·         Unlike starting from abstract, this framework offers a rich set of conventions to guide the developers all through the development course.

Cake PHP offers a rich set of in-built tools to emphasize security. It offers in-built help to developers in form of input validation, form tampering protection, CSRF protection, SQL injection prevention and XSS prevention, etc.