PHP applications usually use HTML and JavaScript client-side technologies to render their user-interfaces. Since Flex is rendered in the browser and can integrate easily with PHP on the server-side, it is a perfect choice for more dynamic UI interfaces for PHP.
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What is PHP?
- PHP is an interpreted scripting language that allows a web server to create dynamic web pages or web services. It is a back-end server technology.
- You use PHP to generate HTML programmatically before it is sent by the web server to a requesting client browser.
- PHP is also used to process form data sent from a client browser.
- The web server invokes the PHP interpreter only when a URL is requested. All program state is lost between requests without special programming.
- A dynamic web application written in PHP consists of a number of .php files on the host server, which are created by a developer with a text editor or IDE.
- PHP can talk directly to a database server such as MySQL.
- Because PHP creates HTML, intimate knowledge of HTML coding is also required for professional results.
- Implementing event-driven user-interfaces and animation effects requires use of JavaScript and HTML.
How does it compare to Flex?
- With PHP, both application logic and layout execute on the server, which returns HTML to the browser. With Flex, a SWF file embedded in the web page executes on the client machine.
- The GUI of a PHP application is generated HTML and optionally supporting JavaScript.
- All the advantages and limitations of HTML-based design apply to a PHP-based application. Flex is generally not limited by HTML layout constraints.
- PHP can talk directly with a database server, and therefore can be used to write web services. Flex does not communicate with the database directly; however, it can consume data from a web service and display it.
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