- HTML embedded scripting
language
Open source
- Native Web server support
- Rich selection of extensions
for
Web developers
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Basic
Features of PHP
- Multi-platform language
(Linux, Windows NT, BSD, Solaris)
- Connectivity to most popular
databases (MySQL, mSQL, ODBC, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle,
Informix, Sybase)
- Support of Java, XML, COM/DCOM
(on Windows only), LDAP, IMAP
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Basic Design Concepts |
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- Language optimized for writing HTML- embedded web
applications lNative Web server support
- "Compile-first, execute-later” paradigm (fast
run-time performance of complex scripts)
- Zend Engine kernel independent
of PHP functional shell
- Independent modular components (Run-time Compiler,
Executor, Functional API)
- Compatibility with PHP 3
- Functional extendibility (plug-in modules such as
optimizer)
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Other PHP 4 Highlights |
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Native HTTP session support
Fallback system for clients that don’t support cookies:
Session identifiers carried in the query string of the URL
PCRE (Perl-like regular expressions)
Shockwave lIntegrated XML and MySQL support
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