A Reason to Smile For All PHP Developers

CyberWizard · 10-20-2009, 09:35 PM

The market is full of developers in different languages like ASP.net, C#, VB.net, Coldfusion, Java and last but not least PHP. Among all the great time has come for PHP developers in India and abroad. The reason is simple. They are highly in demand due to domestic and international requirement. Let me explain how.

Due to the recent recession, most of companies and government organizations have started cutting corners, IT expenditure is among the worst sufferer out of any other expenditures. Because IT expenditure is not considered as Core source of Direct Income, so it's going to feel the heat. Now need of having up to date online information without losing the customer faith is also important. Its true for government and private organization. But that cost goes higher and higher in licensing and development. The response to that was simple, open source technology adoption. And what is the easiest and best to start is PHP development.

PHP development is not only providing the cost effective solution but its known for its robust features on internet. Above all the great community support has made it un disputed leader in web development solutions. It's definitely giving a second thought to existing proprietary programming language owners.

The other reason for PHP popularity is the simplicity and structure that is based on OOP. The programmers are taught OPP during their academics, so migrating to PHP from any other language becomes easier than ever. That adds to its rapid expansion among the developers in India and abroad.

The role of India has become vital here, worldwide India is the leading provider of developers, and that gives an edge to India for Open source revolution also. Most famous PHP based open sources like Joomla, Drupal, Oscommerce have their India based community chapters.

Advice to ASP.net Developers and coldfusion developers, don't neglect PHP now, it could surely save your job in future.

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urstop · 10-21-2009, 05:17 AM

Every technology has its market and there is no point in a developer learning all the technologies at the same time. I think its better if developers expertise in the technology there are in be it PHP or ASP.NET or what ever otherwise they can end up as a "Jack of all trades, master of none"

CyberWizard · 11-04-2009, 08:54 PM

True, it seems that if you learn PHP all the other languages can be learned a lot quicker.

Cars-blog · 11-05-2009, 12:16 AM

I agree with urstop. Besides if a company already has a asp.net or coldfusion site, it would cost them more to switch to php. It's not a matter of just integrating php with whatever's already there; it's a matter of maintenance. So I'd rather know one language top to bottom before bothering with learning php as well.

CyberWizard · 11-05-2009, 10:45 AM

In order to build off PHP and learn other languages it would be much smarter to learn it from top to bottom as well

megamoose · 11-05-2009, 03:52 PM

I've always thought PHP is a fantastic language, and best of all it's all free, along with MySQL Community Edition and Apache. They're all such great tools that cost a business nothing except to hire the programmers themselves. I've always wondered why it's not used more.

I'm guessing it's because businesses are normally not run by IT smart guys. They know of the big companies and that's it. I think a lot of them would here Microsoft Anything and think it must be good, or hear of Java as everything uses it and instantly think it must be good. For someone not good at computers, hearing PHP as being a free, open source language probably strikes fears of security vulnerabilities and bugs. Which of course as users we know isn't the case.

I really hope businesses do invest more in the language as it would be so much cheaper and efficient for them to do so, but I think we're a long way off until that happens.

CyberWizard · 11-05-2009, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by megamoose

I really hope businesses do invest more in the language as it would be so much cheaper and efficient for them to do so, but I think we're a long way off until that happens.

Your right about that probably taking awhile

PHP is going to get a lot more competition as the years go on. Everything in regards to the Internet and intangible products such as software are drastically dropping in price.