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I am new to Web Programming and I hear that there are many biggies like Java, .Net and PHP for Web Application Development.
I would certainly appreciate if I can get some insights on how this technology stack up in comparison and in what scenarios one would prefer one technology over the other.
Thanks for all guidance in advance.
PHP has low resource requirements, really cheap hosting, really low barrier to entry and is the most popular Web framework bar none.
That being said, PHP is a purely interpreted language (opcode caches notwithstanding) so tends to be slower than Java (not that that usually matters), the syntax is inconsistent and it’s easy to make huge errors (like not sanitizing database query inputs; but you can do that in any language).
Neither is better than the other. For casual Web development I definitely prefer PHP most of the time. Java is probably better for more “enterprise” type software.