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what can PHP do? And what special features are there in PHP not found in other technologies?

May 7th, 2002 22:46
David Price, Adam Hughes,

PHP is a very powerful server side scripting language. There is no easy way to explain all of what PHP can do. Try visiting 
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/ to get an idea of the 
wealth of different things PHP is doing. (also visit http://phpgroupware.com to see a large, complex example of what PHP is 
doing.)

PHP in contrast with others technologies:
(I don't know that much maybe someone else can chip in here too)
There are no doubt several articles around that compare PHP to some 
other server side scripting languages, try searching for them.

One thing I do know is that PHP is very easy to learn, if you know C or 
C++ you will pick it up very fast. It also has very good support for 
interfacing with databases, and particularly the MySQL database. It can 
be an Apache module, which means that it should execute quite a bit 
quicker than CGI programs. Its free, it has good documentation on 
setting up an Apache-PHP-MySQL setup (which is entirely free for non-
profit use). It even has the capability to work with IIS or PWS.