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PHP is a scripting language run on website servers, originally designed to produce dynamic web pages. Like ASP and Java, PHP is used in a variety of domains and can run on most of the operation systems such as Windows and Linux. Now, it is usually used alongside with the Open Source web service application Apache and database system MySQL under the operation system Linux (LAMP platform). Its most prominent feature is its ease of use and strong flexibility build complex applications. In the domain of web application development, PHP is the most adopted technology by the developers around the world.

Currently among the over 50 million websites, nearly 60% of them use PHP language. In China, over 80% of the dynamic websites are developed using PHP. By the rise of a variety of web applications (including Web 2.0 applications, email services, intranet applications etc.), the need of the PHP development is rising as well. A great number of the Open Source website building systems are using PHP as the development language for managing dynamic web pages: Joomla!, Drupal and eZ Publish for content management systems; WordPress for blogs, Magento, osCommerce, PrestaShop and Zen Cart for e-commerce systems; Chinese famous bulletin system Discuz! and e-commerce system ECShop etc…

These pre-defined, ready-to-use systems may not perfectly answer to what is needed by the customers for their specific website, for example an internal human resource management system managing leaves and salaries for the employees, or a company that has a specific business process and wishes to change it to information management system… Using PHP + MySQL database solution can perfectly satisfy this kind of customers, by providing them with a totally customized development according to their specific needs. Using PHP can also assure that after the development of the first version, it will be very easy to maintain and upgrade.

For this reason, we witness a growing need of the PHP developers by the companies who plan to build websites or web applications. This results to the fact that PHP developers are now more difficult to hire in China. In order to answer this kind of needs, many technical solution companies start to offer services such as PHP project outsourcing, PHP onsite development… This provides for the companies, needing PHP resource, a convenient and practical option.

Bysoft held an lecture on open source application on web in Oct./23/2008. Our aim is to let more and more people know the open source solution. Read more »