Role Of Php In Web Application Development

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PHP is the simplest yet powerful modern object oriented web application development language.

PHP is one of the languages that has been a driving force in shaping the internet we see today.

Strength of PHP comes from its flexibility, it can be molded to anything you can imagine - CMS website, Ecommerce website, Web sockets say it and it’s possible with PHP. Or if you are just starting up it can be embedded directly in html with just few lines of code.

PHP web application framework

There are many implementations of PHP, commonly known as PHP based frameworks. These frameworks makes life easier for the developer. The most common frameworks are
1. Laravel
2. Symphony
3. Codeigniter
4. Cake PHP
PHP frameworks bring structure and readability to the code, making collaboration between developers easy. The common design patterns like MVC are available out of the box in these frameworks. With the availability of composer, the default package manager for PHP adding depending to these frameworks has become very easy. You can include a package like Eloquent and you never have ...
... to write queries again or worry about the database used.

Symphony - High performance PHP framework

Symphony, a product of Sensio labs can be considered as the big daddy of PHP frameworks, with the world's top CMS - Drupal development and top framework - Laravel being developed using Symphony. Although hard for beginners to learn, Symphony has found audience among experienced developers who needed a tool for creating enterprise grad web applications. Symphony comes with its own tinplating language twig. Twig lets you do complex tinplating using html. Twig provides security and makes your PHP code hidden from public.

Best framework for building PHP web applications

By far the number 1 framework for building PHP web applications is Laravel. Although derived from Symphony, Laravel makes developing fun. Laravel comes fully loaded and doesn't teach you to write bad code.

Laravel can be installed with composer. Once installed the artisan command available with composer will help you structure your application with just few lines of command. Laravel also has migrations, migrations are like version control for your databases. Using artisan you can create migration and while creating migrations you can specify the controllers, models and the resources. In one short you can create a complete API in one single line of command. The routing structure of Laravel are IDE friendly. This helps for rapid development using IDE's like PhpStorm.

NetiApps, one of the established web development company, offer enterprise web application & portal development solutions across the globe.

Using PHP at NetiApps, you can avail of the following services:

• Custom Web Application Development
• CMS Website Development
• eCommerce Website Development
• Web Portal Development
• Corporate Website Development
• Blog Website
• Online Store Development
• Community Website Development
• Message Boards and Forums websites
• Social Networking
• Custom Business Solutions
• Product development
• Market place development