Kesava (left), with Rynet Malaysia Sdn Bhd senior IT consultant and Zend Certified Engineer Arun Arichandran, believes that knowledge of PHP is going to be more relevant than ever with more companies moving to the Cloud. — TAN KIT HOONG/The Star
The Cloud is making this venerable server-side scripting language more relevant than ever.
In the early days of the Internet (and we’re talking 1995, which is an eternity in technology terms) the server-side scripting language PHP was introduced and, believe it or not, it’s still the basis of many websites. Unlike client-side scripting, where everything runs on the web browser, server-side scripting is a technique that uses scripts on a web server to provide responses when a user makes a request on a website.
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