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“Demand is the mother of supply. PHP, the most used and popular web technology of the industry has enormous features to deal with the ever changing demands of the industry. Almost every type of web application can be developed using PHP; but every PHP website can never be a grand success even if the core concept is worthy enough. Here the importance of perfection comes. Perfection plays an important role for the success of any web application and hence there are various procedures or proven methodology to achieve the same. These proven methodologies can be termed as a framework. Framework makes the web development process not only systematic but also effective enough in handling the highly demanding environment of the users. Let us discuss what are the different triggering factors that have made the industry to think beyond a core language? And what forced to rely over many frameworks for PHP web developers? ”
Open Source technology has emerged as the most successful concept of the century: Sharing thoughts can benefit the whole community in a magical manner and it has been proved since the inception of open source technologies including PHP. Before a decade, the industry was messed up with the closed thoughts and technologies like Java, .net and C++ etc. When PHP get born as an open source technology, nobody had imagined its tremendous potential then. It made the life of web developer and the client not only easier, but also happier due to its amazing features like low cost of development, quick web development, potential to accommodate with various platforms and others. Consequently, the industry found a huge community of PHP developers in a very short span of time. With all these amazing features the only thing that has been a concern was none other than perfection and hence PHP frameworks get born into the industry in order to achieve that perfection.
PHP’s success has made the industry to design PHP frameworks to ease the life of PHP developers: Human wants are endless; after the success of PHP, web developers thought of various angels and circumstances to make the application much more reliable and stable. In fact, there were many types of web development applications that were needed by the industry depending upon the need of client, domain and industry. A corporate website is not at all similar to that of an e-commerce site neither it is anyhow similar to any content management system. Hence industry experts prepared a well thought model to achieve these goals with perfection and these models are known as frameworks. In other words we can say the huge popularity of PHP triggered the industry to think its implementation in different domains and circumstances for which new frameworks get born into the industry.
PHP frameworks can reduce the effort and time of development and hence making the process hassle free: One of the most challenging parts of any language is its developer friendly nature. We have seen, many web developers hesitate to work in Java because it is not that much developer friendly. Java needs a large number of codes than any other language to build an application and this creates a problem for the developer as well as clients who wanted to design the website in less time, effort and budget. Here the importances of frameworks come into action; PHP frameworks help in decreasing the time and effort of a web developer drastically with their inbuilt libraries, classes and plug-ins. This has enabled web developers in crafting outstanding websites in less time and effort with more precise approach! Hence the number of PHP frameworks is getting increased with time to make the developers to take the advantage of the latest and innovative concepts of the industry through these architectures or frameworks.
Frameworks for specific task are helping PHP developers in achieving the bull’s eye: Undoubtedly, PHP is most popular technology in the industry when we consider low cost, effective and quick web solution development project. Hence, clients are demanding to create their websites in PHP without giving any chance for other expensive technologies like Java or .Net. As a result, almost every type of applications is now getting developed in PHP. It is no more limited to a specific category of websites; PHP is being used for data driven websites, financial websites, forums, content management system and others. Now a common framework can never provide all these types of benefits with perfection. Hence the industry is bound to release more numbers of PHP frameworks specific to some domain, category and requirements.
Frameworks can avoid major loopholes of any application: Though, PHP has dominated the web industry by its incorporation with different domains; still it falls back in many ways as compared to any compiled language like Java, C++ or .Net. As an interpreted language, PHP enables web developers in preparing efficient and effective web applications in less time and effort; but it is always found that there are some loopholes or security issues as a part of most websites. As a result, financial institutes like bank, insurance and other similar organisations are hesitating to develop their financial web application in PHP. It is absolutely wrong that PHP can never be as secure as Java because it is not the language but the programmer who makes an application secure and stable. Hence a strongly designed Architecture can change the notion if get executed properly by the PHP developers. There the importance of frameworks comes into existence. PHP frameworks like CakePHP and Laravel or Symfony 2 are highly advanced that they can handle any type of security issues with the most perfection approach by their inbuilt encryption technologies and multitier security features. In fact, CakePHP is highly advanced and designed with ORM Architecture to provide industry standard security measures to the PHP developers. As a result, clients are now willing to develop their sensitive websites in PHP with the help of these frameworks.
From above discussion, we can clearly visualise the triggering factors for the introduction of a large number of PHP frameworks in the industry to fulfil the ever changing demands of the user, client and PHP developers simultaneously. Besides that, it also helps in creating modern websites like smart apps, mobile apps and hybrid apps to handle the future demands of the industry. With cloud technology being a part of many PHP frameworks, web developers are now giving the utmost care to the users with their smart apps. As a final word, we can say frameworks are built to withstand the higher demands of the web industry.
Mindfire Solutions provides expert offshore PHP development services from India, gaining its expertise from years of experience in PHP web development and PHP application development. We have been working in PHP for the last 8+ years and have gained expertise on various PHP application development frameworks and PHP services.
