Building Websites Using PHP Web Services

Easily considered one of the most popular programming languages, PHP is an acronym which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. A cool name for a cooler programming language! Its popularity stems from its wide usage around the world by developers, as an open scripting language with PHP scripts executed on the server itself and is free to use by anyone, one just requires you to download it.

Considered a powerful programming language it is no surprise that it serves as the core in some of the most popular blogging and social networking websites.

Despite its fame, the PHP programming language is relatively easy to learn and is great for beginners and experts looking into building PHP based web services

How do PHP web services function?

To build a PHP web service, it is recommended for developers to have prior knowledge of CSS, HTML and Javascript. This is because a PHP file contains text, PHP code along with CSS, HTML and java scripts. After it would be executed on the server which will result in returning as an HTML  in the browser.

Benefits to using PHP web services 

The benefits of using web services built using PHP is because PHP is a versatile language, below are listed some of its merits.

    • It is comparatively much easier to learn and is quite efficient running on a side server. 
    • It is free. A powerful language and to top it off it is free to download for anyone with the commitment to learn and use.
    • There are only a few like the PHP which supports databases from a wide range.
    • In its latest development PHP is compatible with almost all existing servers used currently like IIS or Apache etc
    • You can run PHP on several different types of platforms making it extremely and efficient for developers working in different platforms like Mac or IOS X etc.

Due to such benefits, the PHP or Hypertext processor has become one of the most popular among programming languages in building web services.

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