PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source client side scripting language which was originally created by programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. It is mostly used and suited to build web applications. It is compatible with almost all operating systems like Windows, MacOS, Linux & Unix. It is supported by a various web-servers like Apache, nginx, lighttpd, IIS. Without any doubt PHP is one of the most popular web programming languages and it has been captured that 79% of all websites are built using PHP/PHP frameworks
Latest release: 7.4.15 (security release)
Basically a PHP framework is a platform/skeleton for creating web applications without needing to code from the scratch. Building a web application is a long and complicated process Therefore, to simplify the process, it is a recommended to use PHP frameworks which provides build-in common functions and code libraries which can surprisingly cut down the amount of time a developer needs to build the project.
There are so many reasons for using PHP frameworks compared to write the code from start. Few of them are mentioned below.
Due to built-in functions, tools & libraries used in PHP frameworks, the time required to build a project is far less. That’s why any professional developer would prefer using frameworks over Core PHP anyday.Eg, the Laravel framework has the authentication command-line tool which can create user authentication feature for your application in no time
Many projects need common tasks such as authentication, data sanitization, form submission & validation. Rather than having to write our own functions for such tasks, which is not only time consuming but also can lead to more bugs, most frameworks provide built-in functions to do such things which is really cool.
Using built-in functions of the framework means that you don’t need to write that code to add that feature in the project. Less code less mess
PHP web application can be really vulnerable if not followed a good security step while coding.There are so many PHP security threats which includes cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and spam attacks. Using a PHP framework solve this issue by minimizing the chances of these threats. For example most frameworks have built-in data sanitization techniques to keep those bad guys out of the way.
PHP frameworks use best PHP coding practices. Not every developer follows the good coding practices as mentioned, so it is another advantage of using frameworks as most frameworks use MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern which organize code in a very efficient, cleaner & maintainable way
If more than one developer are working on a single project then many things can go wrong. Change in one piece of code can break the flow of another and frameworks solve this issue by setting proper ground rules like design patterns, code standards & documentation for developers to follow. By doing so it’s not that hard to catch a bug which makes it easy to work as a team.
PHP Frameworks encourage developers to make reusbale functions, refactoring of code which results in a cleaner & leaner code which definitely needs less maintenance.
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