PHP Advantages

PHP has many advantages that are not owned by a kind of script language. PHP is focused on server-side scripting, which can do anything that can be done by CGI, such as collect form data, generate dynamic web page content, and the ability to send and receive cookies, even more than the ability of CGI.

PHP can be used on

all operating systems, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Unix, Mac OS, RISC OS. PHP also supports a web server such as Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server (MIIS), Personal Web Server (PWS), Netscape and iPlanet servers, Oreilly Website Pro server, audium, Xitami, OmniHTTPd, and many others, even PHP can work as a CGI processor.

PHP does not terbtas in the output HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). PHP also has the ability to process the output images, PDF files, and Flash movies. PHP can also produce text such as XHTML and other XML files.

One feature that can be relied upon by PHP is its support for multiple databases. Here's a database that can be supported by PHP.

• Adabas D
• dBase
• Direct MS-SQL
• Empress
• FilePro (read only)
• FrontBase
• Hyperwave
• IBM DB2
• Informix
• Ingres
• InterBase
• MSQL
• MySQL
• ODB
• Oracle (OC17 and OC 18)
• Ovrimos
• PostgrSQL
• Solid
• Sybase
• Unix DBM
• Velocis

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