Revisiting the Benefits of PHP and WordPress Development for Your Business

PHP is at its peak of popularity as a web development language. WordPress is the most popular content management system known. Both of these are known for their simplicity, flexibility and scalability. Businesses find immense comfort in working with either PHP as a core development language, or with a CMS like WordPress that offers a user-friendly interface to work with. It is developed with PHP as a base and can be programmed and customized with this scripting language. Open source software have brought in a great deal of opportunities for customization and businesses all over the world find them very appealing. Here are a few benefits of PHP and WordPress development.

PHP is platform independent

PHP can be run on all the major operating system platforms like Windows, Linux and all Unix flavours as well as Mac OS. WordPress offers businesses with similar kind of flexibility. This enables businesses to use PHP and integrate newer apps into their existing IT infrastructure. There is no need to change too much to include a new web app.

It’s Free and Open Source

Both PHP and WordPress are open source. This means that they can be modified by viewing and editing the source code. This means that Businesses can ask a developer to include all the features that they require and the developer can easily tweak the code for you!

Support for all Major Web Servers

It supports all the major webservers available today. These include Apache, Microsoft IIS, Netscape, personal webserver, iPlanet server, etc. This flexibility is very appealing for businesses who plan changes, and for those who already have the infrastructure set up.

Support for a broad set of databases

It supports a broad set of databases such as MySQL, dBase, IBM DB2, InterBase, FrontBase, ODBC, PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc. This gives it the power to build large and extremely demanding websites that are run by large businesses.

Faster Development

It uses its own memory space and puts lesser load on the servers. It can hence power applications like eCommerce, CRM, CMS and Forums.

Secure

PHP is known for its security and its multiple layers prevent malicious attacks.

Proven history

History proves it all! PHP is one scripting language that powers millions of websites on the web. It has been used to build development frameworks and content management systems and a lot of other flexible development options.

WordPress and PHP are the most sought after web solutions! They are known to be scalable too. Today’s businesses are growing with a very fast rate and they expect their web solutions to scale too. That’s exactly what these two development platforms can offer businesses with!

Rabins Sharma Lamichhane

Rabins Sharma Lamichhane is senior ICT professional who talks about #it, #cloud, #servers, #software, and #innovation. Rabins is also the first initiator of Digital Nepal. Facebook: rabinsxp Instagram: rabinsxp

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