PHP Life Cycle

PHP Life Cycle

The invention of PHP was done in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Earlier PHP was known to be “Personal Home Page”. The fact that PHP was not originally designed yet rather was developed and has prompted conflicting naming of functions and inconsistent requesting of their parameters.

PHP is an embedded scripting language for HTML like ASP or JSP. It is a language that combines elements of Perl, C, and Java. 

There were also new features included in PHP 7.

PHP 7.2 has been officially released on November 30, 2017.

What’s new in PHP 7.2?

Security is the most important thing in 7.2, it needed highly improvements to security.

Here are some new features provided in PHP 7.2:

• Argon2 in the password hash
• Parameter type widening
• Object Type Hinting
• Trailing comma in list syntax
• New Sodium extension
• Core Improvements
• Deprecation

Advantages of PHP:

• Open source
• Speed
• Easy and simple to use
• Reliable
• Can run on any platform
• Built-in relational database modules
• Strong library support

Disadvantages of PHP:

• Security �" As PHP is an open source, all can see the source code so it can come in the weakness of PHP.
• Not suitable for high applications
• Weak type

How PHP Works..?

Introduction

Using PHP to improve your website

PHP has many capabilities features specifically designed for use in Websites, including the following:

1. Securing  your Websites:

• PHP can be utilized to secure your websites with a goal that your customer must enter a valid username or password
• This can be utilized to reward preferred customers and build a unique “membership” component of your business

2. Working with Web forms

• PHP can show an HTML form and process the information that the user types in
• This can be an excellent method to learn more about the clients
  1. Asking them to give profile information
  2. Gather  information about their particular interest

3. Communicate with your database

• PHP is especially adept at communicating with your databases
• Storing information from the user or retrieving data that is shown to the user
• Every single database are presently supported by PHP

4. Customer Loyalty Functions

• PHP takes various functionalities which help in
1. Build clients loyalty
2. Including interactive surveys
3. A guestbook
4. A message board