Unapologetically, my objective in this article is
to show that PHP and MySQL are both mature and widespread technologies
that can be considered a primary web-application platform, not just an
alternative to ASP, JSP, Cold Fusion and a host of other web-app
scripting solutions out there. I'm developing this article in an
evolutionary way and will add as I see trends, get new data, have new
ideas for how to discover the case for PHP. According to some stats,
there are over 12,000,000 sites on the internet now running PHP. So,
what's behind that and why is it so popular?