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PHP against other scripting languages ASP.NET, JSP, CGI, Perl

Alok Pathak — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:37:40 +0000

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• Dynamic Business Applications\n• Dynamic Web Content Management System\n• Dynamic eCommerce Store/Shopping Cart Solutions\n• Dynamic Web Portal Development\n• Web Interface Development for mobile applications or third-party APIs development

\nBenefits\n\nOpensource & Cost effective: There are development environment setup costs involved with the scripting languages like ASP, JSP, CGI and Perl. While as PHP is opensource, there is no cost involved to code the programs using PHP. It is freely available to code with no licensing or any other cost. And thus, the development cost using is low compared to other scripting languages. It is the hot favorite technology for every small business that wants stable solutions at an affordable cost.\n\nFlexibility: As PHP is opensource, one can use any available editor for coding the new functionalities or editing into the existing features. While ASP is limited to Microsoft Visual Studio editor, being a licensed product.\n\nPHP Frameworks: There are wide range of frameworks available that can be used to develop various requirement-specific solutions. The top in demand frameworks nowadays are as below.\n

Zend Framework

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CakePHP

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Symphony

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Laravel

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Typo3

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Drupal

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WordPress

\nThe above listed are all MVC frameworks which helps developers to choose the basic pre-built ready foundation to reduce the development time based on the application requirements features and complexity. The requirements could be different, such as database-driven content management site development, small business application development, enterprise level complex application development. Considering such scenarios, PHP has ready built frameworks / ready foundations with well-organized MVC structure and database relationships which reduce the re-coding of everything for every single project and allows choosing the right base for the right project. This also helps to minimize the project development cost using the ready structure where the development team has to implement just only the features which are not available in ready framework and the customization in the existing features to match the requirements.\n\nScalability: The enterprises are growing day by day and that is why in this dynamic world, the usage requirements are also frequently changing. So, the way we want the application work today, tomorrow we might want it differently with enhanced features and with more data results. That is how the scalability comes into the picture and we have to choose the right scalable technology, in the beginning, itself considering the future enhancement of the application. The way PHP is built followed by MVC (Model, View, and Controller) Structure; you can easily increase the cluster size by adding more servers as the requirements grow.\n

Hire dedicated php developers for your custom development project.

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Select right web framework for your new business site

Alok Pathak — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 06:07:01 +0000

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Let us here try to make it easier for you!

Analyse your business requirements and categorize:

\nDefine your website TYPE:\n\nWhether it would be just a content-driven website that explains about you and your business services OR is it more than just content… with lots of other features\n\nSo, here we can categorize the website types into two:\n

Content Driven Website

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Features Enabled Site (Of course there will be contents plus added custom features as per your business requirements)

\nNow, even if it is a content-driven website, you should know about the content size (approx. pages).\n

\n Small Content Site	\n Medium Content Site	\n Heavy Content Site
\n 10 – 50 Pages	\n 50 – 100 Pages	\n 100+

\nDecide on the number of pages keeping in mind the future goals and needs of your business. Number of pages you may require in next X years and number of registered users you are expecting to surf your website per day. This will help you decide the right scalable platform for your new business website.\n\nNow… if it is not a content-driven website, but a feature-enabled site (web application), you should define the application requirements in detail. Your feature-enabled sites might be from one the followings web titles..\n

Job Portal Website

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News/Magazines Website

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Real-estate Website

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Hospital Management Website

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Appointment Booking Website

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B2B/B2C Website

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Community Building Website

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Directory Website

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E-Commerce Website

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Travel Website etc…

\nIn this case; first you should search, review and list out your competitor’s site and identify the most relevant website which is close to your vision / similar features. Once you are ready with your feature list – you may or may not want to select one of the categories from below which is just for your clarity about your requirement complexity.\n

\n Basic Features	\n Medium Complexity (Apart from the basic features..)	\n Highly Complex Features
\n Registration	\n Logical Calculations	\n Complex Calculations
\n Login	\n Math Calculations	\n Third Party Tools Integrations and Customizations
\n Search	\n Reports Building	\n APIs Development
\n Dynamic Listing	\n Highly Interactive Database etc..	\n Highly Optimized Scripting etc..
\n Forms
\n Map etc..

\nDo not forget to think about the future enhancements before you select your category.\n

Compare:

\nAll businesses and especially startups want to keep their budgets as low as possible and they need more features at a small cost. If you are also looking for a cost effective website with all the features mentioned above or more, the first option for you is to compare your defined feature lists with the available open sources such as WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Umbraco, Zencart, Orchid, .NETNuke and many others in the market and see how many features out of your list are readily available and then consult and discuss with Continuum about further customizations feasibility check for free.\n\nIf your features are unique and not even 30% of features are readily available out of your list plus if it is falling into the “Highly Complex Features” from above category, then you should ideally go for the custom development using .NET, PHP OR JAVA Technologies. The custom development would be costlier than the opensource platforms; however, it is certainly more robust and most scalable way of development.\n

Finalize:

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