What are the benefits of using PHP?

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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a programming language embedded into HTML to make it functional. It lets you make web pages that can change i.e. they are dynamic web pages. For example, “they can say different things depending on how a person uses the web page.”

Benefits of using PHP

PHP is a well known programming language for extending web pages with dynamic features. While HTML can lay out an attractive page and perhaps present forms for users to enter information, HTML can’t actually do anything with the meta-data that the user enters in the form.
Web server extension languages like PHP provides a way to handle form submissions and other user requests by accessing databases, sending email, generating images on the fly and performing other actions. PHP is currently the most popular web server extension language, used in developing many websites. It is popular due to its free, opensource in nature and partly due to its friendliness and convenience e.g. reading an entire file and outputting it to the web browser can be accomplished with a single line of PHP code.

Why PHP is better than ASP.net?

We know that PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and ASP.net stand for Active Server Pages. Both languages are alternative to each other for web development.

PHP is a relatively simple language to use than ASP.net. Initially, PHP was written in the C programming language to replace a set of scripts in Perl. That is the reason why coding in PHP remains simple even today. Many developers find themselves to be more at ease with the user-friendly nature of PHP when it comes to coding.
PHP is has much better support for the database management system, MySQL. In fact, the very popular blogging platform, Word Press uses the formidable combination of PHP coding on MySQL for its content management system, which includes about hundreds of thousands of blog posts every single day. Another very popular and frequently updated service that uses the combination of PHP and MySQL is Joomla. ASP.net can also support MySQL, but PHP is unanimously hailed, by the masses and classes alike, for its great support for this database management system.
Programmers who use both PHP and ASP.net also maintain their opinion that PHP is better for embedded support with another database management system, viz. SQLite. SQLite is described as a relational database management system and since it is contained in a C programming library, PHP can provide better support to it.
When it comes to support, PHP wins over ASP.net. The main reason for this is that PHP is opensource. Hence, the support can come freely from all over the world. In most cases, PHP fixes are made instantly. Most PHP supports can be instantly found online by doing a simple search on the Internet.
PHP is an opensource programming language, which means it is free for anyone to use. Programmers can develop PHP applications virtually at no cost, because PHP is free to use. ASP.net is not free too, but its extensions are available for free on Windows platforms, upwards of 98. Hence, ASP.net is available to Windows users when they buy it. That puts a bit of restriction in its use.
ASP.net is compiled into memory in binary code. So, when ASP.net is used for coding, it is evident that it takes much longer time to process since the codes need to be retrieved from memory. However, PHP is not compiled into memory like ASP.net is. It is interpreted at runtime. That is the reason why PHP coding leads to better speed and even efficiency. However, it must be said that both PHP and ASP.net can run at supreme speeds and efficiency when they are coded expertly.
To run ASP.net you need IIS on windows, which is not free. For PHP however you need Linux and Apache which are free. Great built in support for ftp, email, graphics package GD2 and also MySQL are present in PHP.
PHP will run on UNIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows. ASP.net is mainly only Windows associated but you can use it on Linux with additional modules installed.