Yes Php as a programming language is really cool.
While it may not be as powerful as its substitues like JSP and
ASP.net, there is actually a very large community of developers
working on the PHP language. Lots of free open source applications
have been developed for industrial use that a person with some
background in programming could easily configure to his own
needs.
A great example is Wordpress a blogging software. I have been
using it for quite a few years on friendster for personal blogging.
Recently I setup my own new blogging site at a new location blog.name1price.com but still
using the same open source software Wordpress. Now with FTP access
to my wordpress script, I could easily extend my Wordpress blog to
include more impressive features.
If you are a technie, without hosting space or domain name but
would really like a playground to test out these open source
system., I could easily provide you with one free of charge.
Another cool system which I have been using for quite a while is
Joomla. It has already reached version 1.5. I consider it to be
quite a mature content management technology by now. You could also
have it downloaded free off the net. All you need is just a hosting
space to test it out. Samething if you need a play ground to test
out this site tell me about it.
Recently I was out with my friend who is a trader. Apparently he
was having problems keep tracking of his stocks. So I thought I
should help him out by creating a online inventory system. However
rather than creating one from scratch I just searched on google and
found once again a free fully running inventory management system
that is written in PHP.
That is the cool thing about PHP there is such a large community
working on it that you can easily find an already written software
system in that language to fit your needs with just slight
modifications.
Even Microsoft seeing the large crowd of open source
community around PHP is trying to woo of this community over to its
web server windows IIS server from the Apache web server by PHP
easier to install on the IIS server.
Check it out here : http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/phponwindows.aspx
Gary from Name1Price.com