New Features in PHP 6.0

“PHP is the only oldest language that is fully dedicated to the web domain. It has nothing to do with others and it does what it is intended for. With every passing version, there is certain modification, addition and removal of features as per the demands of the industry and PHP does it in a seamless manner. This time, the industry is flooded with many assumptions, predictions and theories to find their dream land PHP v6. It is one of the highly anticipated versions of PHP; though, many said that PHP will directly release PHP7 version, but now it comes with PHP6 with some enhanced features. The release of PHP 6.0 was indubitably made to defer for long. However, the upgrade that kept most of us keyed up definitely planked in a horde of features to look forward to. But for most, the integration of native Unicode UTF-8 in the upgraded version looked preeminent of all. Listed below are some new features in PHP 6.0 that are hopeful of making many users swap to its structure”.

Internationalization: Internationalization or I18N is known for cross cultural or cross location programming. It helps in creating cross culture application with some local inputs like date, time, language, currencies and phone numbers etc. It is highly effective in crafting cross region websites for the industry. The highlight remains the embedment of native Unicode (UTF-8) to the core. Also, improved array indexing is a significant part of PHP 6.0 (enhanced array indexing is anticipated to induce the possibility of being used to sub string). Will discuss more on the next section i.e. Unicode Support.

Enhanced 64bit Support: It is awaited as yet however; PHP 6.0 envisages support for 64bit in near future. As a result, internal code compatibility will not be a hitch in any way. The security level will also increase and the standard of programming will definitely improve a lot. With this, the speed and efficiency of PHP application will also increase to a significant level. So, it is really a wow feature for PHP developers who know how to implement it perfectly fine.

Unicode Support: So far, UTF-8 has proven to be the most efficient alternative as default encoding for string values. Although UTF-16 could not thrive at being a part, the framework hopes to bring Unicode support, design and implementation for enhanced usability. As discussed above in I18N i.e. there are 18 characters in between I and N of Internationalization can help PHP developers in building cross geographic location websites using Unicode. Suppose your client want a website to be developed for 3 different languages like English, French and Belgium. Then, we can do it using Unicode. There will be a content file that keeps the translation version of each words and in the programming application, the PHP developer will keep levels for every field. Now, with Unicode this is possible. The different language words can be written in Unicode and saved into the content file and retrieved as when required by the application. Then according to some local data as discussed above i.e. Time, date, language and currency etc contents will be rendered on the web page. In short, this is highly important in creating multi lingual website in PHP.

Internal API Cleanup: There is no doubt that internal APIs for PHP platform has been on the rise since years. But, PHP 6.0 aims at building developer friendly APIs – which might extend to hash. To notify, hashes are largely employed for internal storage which further lead to the need of internal API cleanup. And since, the stream API tends to go through unfortunate ‘code duplication’, the new feature focuses on resolving the inconsistency and code duplication concerns. In the Cleanup process, the efficiency increases and the application become more stable and optimized as a result, hence improving the overall user experience.

Improved Performance: Performance is the key factor of every language, every version and every upgrade. Fortunately, PHP 6 is more efficient than that of its preceding version. Undoubtedly it will improve the overall productivity of the application and hence the user experience. Another prominent tweak comes in the form of enhanced performance by the framework. PHP 6.0 is likely to offer page level (OpCode) caching through moving Alternative PHP Cache into the PHP core. Along with this, the release unveils the new function of ‘break to label’ – which basically enables the transport of a break to a label (resembling a goto).

Removed Features from PHP: PHP 6.0 takes off magic quotes from its structure. However, developers would look forward to it if the upgraded version adds traits support, C# -style properties with getters/setters, or enable function call chaining. Along with that register_globals, safe_mode are also removed. register_globals is an important feature of PHP and if it is removed then it becomes a hurdle for the PHP developers while dealing with this parameter. I will suggest you to turn this value off for security concern. Because, remove of register_globals enables the users to add, delete or even modify the query string without any hassle and that may lead to fatal error in the application. So, be cautious of these features and accordingly implement them understanding their potential importance.

Warning Free Code: And yes, CodeIgniter eventually emerged as a significant part of this website programming language. Although code quality analyzer has gone astray, the CodeIgniter framework boasts of its warning free code function. There is no doubt that PHP 6.0 has been garnering much of attention since last few years, however it is certainly anticipated to become a popular choice as a hosting control panel vendor. This is really effective in avoiding false positive warnings which was there in the previous versions. Now, the PHP developer will be happier to find proper notification and essential warnings in the application.

Besides these, there are a slew of features that are likely to be amalgamated into PHP 6.0 with time. Though PHP 5.3 integrated many of the functions that were supposed to be embedded into PHP 6.0, the framework still has all the right reasons to intrigue developers for the most part. Also, we cannot forget the removal of register_globals and safe_mode which came as part of PHP 5.4 Alpha (while it was primarily a part of PHP 6.0).

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Checklist of points while migrating to PHP

“In software language, migration refers to improvement. With every newer version, you will get more user access for better customization and improved user experience. So you must consider the migration process for your PHP website to make it a smart site on the fly over the latest platform. But, there are many potential threats in the migration process and we can’t ignore them at any situation. You must go through some considerations before you jump into the migration process.”

What you get from migration to latest PHP version? Migration means improvement. With the latest version of PHP, you will get enough scope for advanced web application development with many new and enhanced features. Features include support for namespace, Late Static Binding, native Closures, Jump levels, Nowdoc syntax etc. Along with that, a garbage collector is also added for developing advanced web applications on the fly. It is always recommended to remain up-to-date with the latest version of any technology to deal with the ever changing demands of the user.

Back-Up- the term has the highest priority for any Migration process: When you decide to migrate to PHP i.e. the latest version of PHP, the first thing that you should do is to keep a backup of all your previous resources at a secure place. It is recommended to keep those data in a new drive or a different machine drive so that, even by mistake you are not going to lose it during the migration process. The migration process doesn’t take few seconds or minutes rather it may take as long as few hours. So, there is a potential threat of unsuccessful migration process and hence chance of data loss in between. To avoid this issue, there must be a backup of all your resources including the database. Many times the database gets altered during the process so it is necessary to keep the database in a more secure place so that if any data loss occurs we can get it back without much hassle.

Consistency is must: During the migration process due to the change in platform, there is a high chance of inconsistency after the process is completed. It is very common and obvious to find inconsistency between two different versions of any platform. Usually many existing method names, class names and libraries source code get changed in order to provide better quality services with the latest version; but, this affects the behavior of our old PHP application significantly. To avoid this, you must go through each and every modification in the technology and then study the source code of those functions from the documentation and accordingly you should change your previous codes to work with the new platform. In this manner you can avoid the inconsistency issue caused by the migration process.

Compatibility should be well tested: Just like the inconsistency issue, there will be a sure shot compatibility issue when you evolve to the newer version of PHP due to the modified source code. Moreover it also affects the existing plug-ins severely. Most of the plug-ins will not work properly with the latest version and they should be replaced by the corresponding update versions in order to compatible with the latest PHP version. Usually most plug-ins releases their updated versions for the latest PHP version to avoid compatibility issue; but there might be few plug-ins or components that don’t have any compatible updates for the latest version. In that scenario, the developer has to take the responsibility of the plug-ins or components to make them alive in the new platform without mismanaging the application. It can either be done by removing the entire plug-in and its dependencies and then substituting it with another plug-in that may work what the existing was doing previously. Another way is to modify the existing plug-in codebase to make it compatible with the new platform.

Database migration needs full attention from the developer: During the migration if anything is highly unstable then it’s none other than the database. There is a high chance of data loss during the transition and hence you must take preventive steps before you start the migration process. As we have already discussed, the previous database should be kept in a safe and secure environment just like in an isolated drive of the same system or in a different machine. If any data loss occurs we can roll back the database from the backup folder.

Always perform the migration process with a SVN or RTC: SVN or RTC are used for keeping track of any codebase change in the application server. These are highly impactful when we are performing the migration process followed by code modification to make our application fit with the new environment. Usually we find errors and bugs in the new application after the migration process and hence it can be avoided by using an enterprise standard SVN or RTC for versioning purpose. It is like a life saver for the developers during any critical situations; because it enables the application to roll back to its previous version without zero hassle.

Make sure, your application can be roll back if needed: As discussed above versioning tools like SVN or RTC can be used for roll back of modified codebase but what about if the migration process is absolutely unsuccessful? In that case, we have to check if there is any migration tool available for PHP to migrate to a newer version and whether it provides the roll back option if the process is unsuccessful. As a tech savvy, we will not recommend you to rely over a software tool for the migration process and putting all your effort and risk on the same rather we would say it would be an unwise decision to rely on a manmade migration tool. To avoid this you should keep all your existing resource as backup in an isolated location or machine so that in case of unsuccessful migration you can restore your application from the backup.

Finally, Extensive testing is must: Once the migration process is completed there must be many compatibility issue, inconsistency and unreliability in your application. Hence it must be under go severe testing approaches i.e., both manual testing as well as automation testing to find out if any loop hole is still present in the application after iterative testing processes. Never compromise on the quality of testing at any cost because this will seriously hamper your end product or application.

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Review of PHP CodeIgniter Framework

“The new era web service applications are designed on a modern platform for better accessibility and code integration: It is known as Model- View- Design pattern or simply MVC. The same, we can find from PHP CodeIgniter platform. As the name suggests, there are 3 components and they are separated from each other by a virtual yet effective screen. It keeps the View i.e. the user interface absolutely isolated from the core logic. The View and the logic are controlled by an intermediate Controller. The Model consist of the core logic, database and rules of the application and it provides the relevant contents to the View i.e. Browser after the instruction of the Controller. By this process, the MVC architecture helps in keeping every aspect of the application safe and secured and most importantly in a systematic manner. Let’s have a glance over the CodeIgniter framework”.

Complete documentation for the user: Since, CodeIgniter is a framework developed on the MVC architecture; there are many components, libraries and functions available inside. In fact, the Model designs itself cumbersome. So, it becomes difficult for a developer to start writing code on the platform without any prior knowledge or in-depth knowledge of its components. To make the things easier CodeIgniter provides a complete documentation for all its components and features. As a smart web developer, you should go through each and every page of the documentation so as to make the best use of the framework. The documentation works like a user guide and hence it is extremely useful from the developer’s point of view. It has various indexes like MVC basics, Routing basics, Form validation, Performance improvement etc and these are extremely important in developing an enterprise standard web solution. It is always recommended to learn the documentation along with a corporate training for improved productivity of the developer.

Installation will not take more time or effort: CodeIgniter is a web application framework developed in PHP and enables PHP web developers in building reliable yet faster web solutions without much hassle. To getting started with CodeIgniter, one needs to install the framework on the server. For the same, you need to download the software and unzip the package from internet. Now you have to upload all the folders and files to the server on which you are suppose to work on. You can also use encryption or sessions by setting encryption key. The process is very simple and it doesn’t require any hard effort from the developer. Once you configure CodeIgniter you can start coding from the index.php page.

Advanced features have made it to sustain in the industry for years: There are many advanced and effective features that CodeIgniter possesses for designing high quality web applications. The most important feature of CodeIgniter is its MVC Architecture, which is extremely helpful in creating complex web applications in less time and with more accuracy. CodeIgniter is extremely light weight and hence it can help you in building light weight web applications that will definitely load faster on the browser especially when we are considering modern browsers for smart phones and tablets etc. CodeIgniter has an inbuilt form and data validation feature that eliminates the unnecessary effort that is being given by the developer in other platforms. It has FTP class and File Uploading class for manipulation of files in the application server. The enhanced full page caching features can definitely help in improving the performance of the application and hence user experience. It has other features like Active Record Database Support, Session Management, Error logging and Calendaring class etc.

SEO with CodeIgniter: Search engine optimisation is the most important feature of any web framework and it is now a must for every framework. Just like other PHP frameworks i.e., WordPress, Joomla etc, CodeIgniter also possess a search engine optimisation tool to make the PHP website well visible on Google. The search engine optimisation process starts with the title of the page and the search engine friendly URL. CodeIgniter has support for creating search engine friendly URLs along with other SEO features like key word density calculation, URL routing and SEO analysis etc. The URL routing or rewriting technique helps in improving page ranking in the search engine for better visibility of your website.

Ease of Use for CI developers: A framework can’t sustain for a decade in the industry without any potential. CodeIgniter has already proved its potential with awesome features and of course easy to use developer interface. The developer interface of CodeIgniter is extremely easy to understand i.e. a beginner can start coding on the platform without much hassle. Different components of the framework can easily be integrated to the application for enhanced productivity. It has many templates available for the CodeIgniter developer so that he can start developing web pages easily with the templates that are already made available for the developers.

Migration process is not a headache for you: Migration is something used for the improvement of your application with more optimised classes and data query. In web application development process it is extremely important for any business to be up to date with time in order to provide better customer support for your service or product. In CodeIgniter, the developer is allowed to manage his database schema for different environments and platform. The developer needn’t to manually run the MySQL queries for this process rather it can be done from within the platform itself. The best part is that it also provides scope for the CodeIgniter developer to reverse or role back of the migration process if found any issues during the migration. With CodeIgniter you can track all the versions of your database changes just like versioning of files as we use git i.e., we can go back or forward easily to a different DB version as per our requirement and as when we need it.

Flexibility and customization is really a wonderful feature: A framework is usually having some optional features that can be achieved for your application with the integration of plug-ins, themes etc. CodeIgniter developers are allowed to integrate various open source plug-ins developed in PHP or jQuery to make the website more feature loaded and attractive. A PHP developer can customise his web application through different plug-ins and components for enhanced user experience. On the other hand, it also helps in extending the functionality of the application without any high effort due to availability of source code from CodeIgniter expert community.

Nevertheless to say, CodeIgniter has an amazing track record of more than a decade and how this is possible we can easily guess from above discussions.

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Should we use Zend Framework Pros and Cons

“Frameworks work like a blessings for software developers. It not only decreases the effort of a developer but also improves his productivity and programming skill. A framework is like an abstraction in which the software developer can put his code to make it a fully fledged application in less time and with more accuracy in a systematic manner. It is like a platform containing code libraries, tool sets, and many inbuilt modules that can help the developer in creating enterprise standard software applications. Zend framework is a PHP framework which is absolutely dedicated for the development of PHP web applications on the fly. It can create high performance and powerful web applications in less time and effort. But as we know nothing is perfect in the world and so the case for Zend framework. Though, Zend framework has a lot of useful features but also it has some cons”.

Pros of Zend framework:

Highly customizable: Customisation is the ability of a framework to help the web developer in creating a web application with numerous features and options. In other words we can say this is the flexibility tendency of a framework. The more flexible a framework is, the better it is from the developer’s point of view. Zend framework has a victorious record for customisation offerings in the industry. With Zend framework you can tailor your website in any manner you like with different customising tools available with the framework. It provides consoles, local storage, and user configuration options for the web application to make it more flexible and attractive enough. Again it is a fully object oriented framework and follows inheritance and reusability concepts of OOP for well-organized and personalized web development. It enables the PHP developer to control over each and every feature of the framework and hence creating a beautiful website from within the platform. The best part is that you can customise your Zend application at your finger tips in no time and hassle.

For all your big data application, there is Zend: Zend framework has everything in the form of an object. As a result, a Zend developer can take the advantage of code reusability and inheritance for his application. This is highly recommended for enterprise standard large scale web applications. Zend framework can handle any type of and any number of dependencies in an application without slowing down the performance. The framework has an awesome architecture built on MVC pattern that will definitely mesmerize you while dealing with complex component of the web application. Hence there is a potential demand for Zend developers in the industry especially for big data applications.

HTML5 Compliant: Zend framework is developed with HTML5 and hence a web designer can take the advantage of Zend framework for quick web page development that is not only light weight but also elegant in nature. It has HTML5 form features available from within the framework. It supports input types like E-mail, URL, Phone number, date pickers and search etc. You needn’t to bother about the client side field validation since it is taken care by Zend. Zend also provides new types like datalist, keygen and output etc.

Larger community support: Zend is not a new framework for PHP developers; in fact it is an old framework having a stunning track record. Due to its unmatched quality and usability it is vastly accepted in the industry and there are many popular websites being developed in Zend. There are thousands of Zend certified PHP developers available in the industry and they are serving the industry through their experience and expertise in the field. On the contrary this will help other developers in getting support from Zend community for any type of issues that arise during the development process.

Efficiency and speed is simply awesome: Zend follows the object oriented approach of C++ and hence this is highly powerful and fast. A PHP website that is developed in Zend platform is usually runs faster than that of any other framework. Hence all big data web applications prefer to use PHP Zend framework. Zend has almost unlimited number of customisation options for the developer and this will definitely help the developer in creating highly optimised and efficient web solutions.

Cons of Zend framework:

Getting started is not as easy as with any other PHP framework: Unlike any other PHP framework, Zend is truly heavy and huge. It has a large volume of libraries, components and classes available inside the core. Though it helps in crafting any type of web application without the need of any external resources, but again you should know all the features of the framework to use them efficiently. It will take few months to be familiar with these inbuilt functions so that, you can take the best advantage of the framework. Once you learn these features and understood the core architecture of the framework, you can start coding on Zend for an awesome application.

Lack of enough resource for the beginners: It is really true that there are minimum resources available on web for Zend developers. This is probably due to availability of all features and components within the framework itself. But for beginners it is a disadvantage because he needs some resources and tutorials on the framework to sharpen his programming skill.

Expensive plug-ins: Though Zend is highly powerful and efficient but again it comes with some shortcomings. There are many plug-in available in the market to help the developer in adding better and refreshing features to the application but at the cost of good bucks. It is believed that the plug-ins available for Zend platform are usually costs more than that of any other platform.

Huge documentation can be confusing sometimes: Zend has a beautiful documentation consisting of every tiny detail of the framework. Since there are a large number of features available in the framework hence we can expect a bigger volume of documentation to describe all those features and components. Many times, it becomes tough for the PHP developer to check each and every page of the documentation to understand the true power of the framework. In fact, it creates confusion in the developer’s mind when he is projected to work in the Zend platform without any prior expertise or experience.

Every framework is having some advantages along with few disadvantages and so the case for Zend as well. But considering the advantages of Zend, the disadvantages are simply negligible. So you can go ahead with Zend for your next web application project.

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An insight into PHPStorm

PHPStorm- An intelligent IDE for PHP web developers: PHPStorm is like a blessing for PHP developer. It is an outstanding IDE or editor for PHP web developers. It is developed by Jetbrains and has a received a tremendous popularity from the IT industry in a very less span of time due to its magical features. It not only supports PHP codes but also other web scripts like javascript, JQuery, HTML and CSS etc. It helps in reducing the effort and time of a web developer to a large extent with its intelligent properties. When we say it’s intelligent, that means it is smarter than other IDEs like komodo or notepad plus etc.

Why IDE? IDE stands for integrated development environment. This is like an editor that capable to be integrated with a framework for better productivity. It provides numerous types of assistance to a PHP developer during the development process which helps in avoiding silly mistakes and hence bugs in the application. On the other hand it also reduces the effort of the tester to a large extent due to minor bug free application. Hence it is like a integral part of the development process for any web application development project.

Code assist: The basic nature of PHPStorm is to provide code assistance to the programmer during programming. It helps in different programming supports like code auto complete, code suggestion and highlighting different components of the web application. It also helps in maintaining proper indentation in the programme that can help the application to be well readable and maintainable for future. Moreover it can also suggest for different method name, variable name or even library name during the development process which definitely helps the developer in avoiding common spelling mistakes in the application. Different web components like HTML tags, CSS tags etc are highlighted on PHPStorm platform that helps the developer in avoiding unnecessary silly mistakes.

PHPDoc support: PHPDoc is well supported by PHPStorm. As a result it helps in developing enterprise standard web applications with global rules adopted by the developer. It gives the application a new standard that will definitely help the application to be debugged in future. Well we can make few customisations in this option for our requirements and needs.

Debugging can be hassle free: With PHPStorm IDE a PHP developer can debug the application in a more professional and efficient manner. He can take the help of other debugging tools like xdebug for quality debugging in less time and with more accuracy. In other words we can say the debugging process can be easier through PHPStorm.

Productivity increases: PHPStorm helps PHP web developers in writing industry standard professional codes on the platform. Moreover these codes are not only well readable but also highly maintainable and flexible in nature. Hence it reduces the overall maintenance cost of the application in a long run scenario. Due to its intelligent features as discussed above it reduces not only the time and effort of the developer and tester but also the overall cost of production of the project making it quite productive than before.

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Why is MySQL considered a partner of PHP?

We have landed in the web era: Hey guys, am I mistaking!! I hope no. Managing our day-to-day task in the desktop is gone and now it’s time to organize our life on the cloud. Who needs that heavy desktop for just a small calculation which we can be performed in our iPhone and can be kept inside our chest pocket? Everything is now online may it be message service (chatting, e-mail and sms), organising our life and business using software like file maker and bento etc. Organisations also love to use web services more than that of desktop applications which is rigid and irritating. So everything is depending on the wireless internet connectivity. Understanding the situation many software firms including offshore software development organisations are now tensed to build modern web applications for the industry. There is an adrenal rushing in their vein to build more and more web applications by the web developers.

PHP a perfect web language: In this situation if anything has received tremendous support from the web developers then that is none other than PHP development. Being one of the web languages, PHP received a tremendous popularity among the developers in building modern enterprise standard web applications. One can start his web development process now with PHP by just studying some tutorials on the web. PHP is extremely easy to learn and develop web applications for the new web developers of the industry. Hence PHP is treated as the main gate to enter into the IT industry by the web developers in less effort and small time.

PHP is a dead concept without MySQL and the combo becomes deadly for sure: When we think about PHP the first word comes to our mind is open source. Yes PHP is an open source language and hence a PHP developer can modify the source code of the language. Due to open source in nature we can start using it for developing our own web application without any bucks to invest. This makes it first choice for the beginners to kick start their carrier in web development. But, any server side language like PHP is incomplete or we can say dead without a database support. Fortunately, MySQL has similar nature to that of PHP. My SQL is also an open source database service. Hence we can develop a complete web application using both PHP and MySQL without any investment. This is really like a boon for the web developers or PHP developers to start their website development from the day one with this open source language – database deadly combo.

PHP and MySQL for modern web development: Both PHP and MySQL when get together results in an enterprise standard web application which is not only superfast but also efficient. Due to low start-up cost, many offshore software development farms and their clients love to develop industry standard web application in less time, money and effort. Most importantly, we can develop modern web applications using HTML5, CSS3 and dynamic java script in addition to PHP MySQL for different platforms and devices. Of course we needn’t to say, the web developers (PHP developers) can also build responsive web applications using these technologies for modern smart phones and tablets.

Industry respects this couple: Industry also understands and hence respects the strong intangible relation between PHP and MySQL. Hence, they are giving away gifts like wordpress, zend framework etc to the web developers.

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The necessity of certification in PHP development

PHP has retained the same essence in the industry even after a decade!! PHP is only technology that showed courage to fight against the monopoly of Microsoft’s ASP .Net and Java in the web industry. To add this, PHP also gained success in the industry due its continuous effort. During the beginning phase, PHP could not perform better; but with time it learned from its mistake and made them as their weapon for the next version. As a result, it comes up as a winner in the industry. Considering its popularity and power, new generation software developers or web developers are willing to work in PHP to showcase their talent in the industry. This is creating a competitive environment in the industry and hence PHP developers are under pressure. To overcome this, they are trying to get corporate trainings on the technology to polish their knowledge and skill. In other words, we can say they are trying to achieve Certifications in PHP to prove their talent. Today we will discuss the importance of such certification in PHP.

Certification is nothing but a symbol of your proficiency: When you are having a certification in any technology, it simply refers to your command over the language and the same happens with PHP development as well. Though it is not a concrete way to measure someone’s talent or skill; but it can be accepted to some extent. Even a qualified graduate may not be come up as a skilled labour in later phase of its life; but at the same time many certified developers can be more valuable!! Hence certification always refers to skill; it may not be talent always.

Certification can help you creating a unique position in the industry: Imagine, you are one of the thousands of PHP developers seating in a hall. If you have a certification in PHP and it is limited in this hall, you will definitely feel privileged. Isn’t? You will feel that awesomeness in the bulk due to your unique characteristics. Moreover you will get some additional scope among your peers. You will get more chance in an interview if you are having a certification in PHP. Moreover, a certified PHP developer means efficiency, experience and skill. So, a software farm when thinks to hire some efficient PHP developers, it will definitely think about Certified developers more positively than others. So, it is always beneficial to have a certification in PHP.

It can help the industry in getting quality professionals: On the other hand, when there are more numbers of certified developers in the industry, it will lead to better output. Because they will put their expertise and experience in web development process and that will lead to awesome output. In this situation, the developers will get better opportunity from the industry and the industry will get better quality of resource for the development process. So it will create a win-win situation for both developers and industry. Then what are you waiting for? Have a certification today in PHP.

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Positives of hiring a PHP development company for web development

A reliable PHP development farm can help you in quality output: If you are considering hiring a PHP development farm for your next web application project then you are going to take a good decision. When you out source your application development to a reliable software farm from a well known region like India, you will get a lots of perks during the development process. The best part is they have expert teams of PHP developers in their company that will definitely help you in getting an awesome product at the end of the project. The experience and expertise of those PHP developers can help you in getting a reliable and prominent website for your users. The website being developed by expert PHP developers will definitely be not only efficient but also optimised and interactive.

Well, PHP is extremely cost effective for web development process: If you decide to make the development process within your premises then you have to incur lots of costs in different forms like infrastructure cost, developers cost, tester’s wages and maintenance cost for your development process. Though at no point of time, all of these resources will work for your web development process, but you have to pay for them continuously. On the contrary, if you hire a PHP development farm for this purpose, they can help you in saving a good amount of investments for your business. The infrastructure cost will tense to zero and the other costs will decrease drastically up to 60 to 70% depending upon the currency difference between yours and that of the web development farm.

They can assist you in every possible way: Well, once you hire a PHP team from a reliable software farm, they will take all the responsibility for your application development. Well, they have experts in PHP to foresee any unexpected situation from before so that it can help you in avoiding those situations. Moreover, if that type of complex situation arises, they have the potential to tackle it efficiently. Their expertise and experience will help your application to be under safe position. To add this, their suggestions will work like a boon and it will definitely help you to come out from any unfavourable situation. They can also assist you in many possible ways so that you can get some useful tips that can help you in growing your business.

No fear for support: When you are choosing a reliable PHP development company for your next project, we need not to worry about the support. They will provide you all the industry standard support facility to your application. Moreover, they will not only work for your prestige and reputation in the industry; but at the same time, they will also work hard to save their market value in the industry. They are always quality hunger so that they can get different Certifications on quality service provider in the industry. So, they will work day and night for the same purpose.

You can get in touch with a PHP development company who can help you build web projects within allocated budgets and time schedules.

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PHP and its elegant features that controls web development

PHP on its way to success: At a time when the industry was dominated by Java and .Net, PHP had come up to challenge them on the battle. In early stage of its life cycle PHP was not a huge success, but with time, it received tremendous acceptance value in the industry. This is possible due to the continuous learning attitude of PHP. PHP has been undergoing several changes over time to suite the demand of the PHP developer and industry and hence it come out as a gem in the industry. Moreover, at a period when the industry was carving for a better web language, PHP turned out as a boon for the web developers; because web development process through JSP or ASP was damn tedious at that time where as PHP made it easy with its simple approach and write less do more concepts. This brought an overnight popularity of PHP developers in the industry.

PHP is a true web domain specific language: PHP can only be used for web application development; it can’t be used to develop desktop application like Java or .Net. So at a time when the industry was dominated by web applications, PHP turned out as a leader of web domain specific language. PHP developer can develop any type of websites on the fly. It can be used for agile web development process to develop enterprise standard web applications for the industry. PHP developers can develop any size of application efficiently in less time and more productivity.

It has an awesome feature i.e. Functions with Arbitrary Number of Arguments: Well, PHP has an awesome feature i.e. we can dynamically set the number of arguments for any function. Let me explain how it can be helpful. Suppose, in our web application, there is a function that needs the user to enter the arguments as per his choice; at that time, the application developer is unaware of the number of arguments that can be sent to the program. So, to handle this issue, we can use the above concept to develop our web application.

PHP is future ready: Yes! PHP is future ready; because it has all the future amenities under the hood. Technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery etc. These technologies can be used to write responsive web applications for different screen size, resolution and platforms so that the user can get similar user experience in all screen sizes. To add this, Cloud technology can be integrated by a PHP developer in the web application. With the integration of Cloud technology, PHP developers can give the users an awesome and hassle free experience without any worry for the memory storage size.

It is Open source along with its best friend MySQL: MySQL is treated as the best friend of PHP. It helps the PHP web developer in developing dynamic and data driven web applications on the fly. The best part is it is open source just like PHP. Hence we can expect an exceptional quality of software from the PHP MySQL combo. Moreover you can kick start your first web application using PHP MySQL from the first day itself without any investment.

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Ladder – Things to know about this PHP database migration tool

Are you developing an app without any support from framework in PHP? PHP is a web language which is extremely reliable and popular in the industry. PHP is an open source language and hence there is a tremendous support for PHP developers from the community. When PHP combines with MySQL it becomes a deadly combo for the web developer because he can develop any type and size of web application. Moreover, there are many frameworks available in PHP like cake PHP, zend and laravel etc. These frameworks make the life of the PHP developer much easier with their hilarious features. It helps in keeping track of all types of activities of the developer during the development process. On the other hand, if a PHP project is developed without the support from a framework then the PHP developer will miss the advantages that he would have gained from the framework. In this situation he should take the help of a third party data base migration tool to keep track of each and every activities of the web developer.

Why Database migration tool (Ladder)? When a team of web developers work on a PHP development project without any support from frameworks, there is a chance of data incompatibility among the developers. Sometimes at the middle of the project, we find it necessary to change the schema of a table in the database. In that situation it becomes very difficult to modify the table with all precautions. Moreover while modifying the schema it is necessary to consider the version of the application in order to avoid the compatibility issue. Moreover if one of the team members alters the configuration of the database then it should be visible to all other members and the process should be performed keeping all the versioning issue in mind; because this may lead to crash of the application if a synchronisation is not made among the programs. To avoid this issue a PHP developer should use something just like a SVN to keep track of all the activities of the team members who deal with sensitive data of the database. Ladder is one such database migration tool for PHP and MySQL to keep track of all the database changes made by the developer with detailed information like data and time of modification and it will also prevent unethical modification of the database. It also helps in comparing different modification versions of the database so that in future the PHP developer will not face any trouble while dealing with debugging process of the application.

Importance of Ladder: Ladder is a database migration tool that can help the web developer in creating, running and managing database migration in PHP environment. It is nothing but a PHP class, which has the capability to keep track of all the modification versions on your database. Moreover, it provides support to modify multiple database schemas in an application in one take. Well, though it is instructed to perform multiple modifications in one take; but, it performs the tasks in multiple steps. Moreover, it performs the migration or modification in a sequential manner so that there will be no redundancy error in future.

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