[brakennathan]

If you have only a small website of seven or eight pages, it will be easy enough to just put your navigation list on every page manually. However, if you need to change something, you'll have to go back to every page and make your changes. This can be very time consuming even with a small site, but with a larger one of 20 or more pages, it can take hours – especially if you want to make big changes to the design of the navigation list, for example.

If you use GUI web design software such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver, you will probably have a page template which just duplicates on every page. This is a good solution insofar as you can make changes to your whole site without having to repeat them on every page. However, the problem is that if you don't have your GUI web design package available on the computer on which you need to make your changes, you're stuck – you will have to change every page.

At this point, you might cave in and decide to build a framed website, with the navigational links in a side frame and your content in the large centre frame. If you know anything about web design, you'll know that framed websites are, almost without exception, a bad idea – the most obvious reasons being inconsistent browser rendering of framed sites, and the fact that internal bookmarking of a site becomes more complicated to implement.

If your server is PHP-enabled, a far better solution than all of these is a PHP include. Basically, a PHP include inserted into the html of a web page tells the browser to retrieve an html file from the server and include it when it renders the web page. This means that you only need to have one file with your navigation links in it stored on your server, and every one of your web pages can be rendered including this same file. The benefits are clear: if you need to make a change, you need only change your single file and the change will show immediately wherever you have put a PHP include for that file.

[rickyvogas]

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[jesicca]

Benefits of PHP

At first glance, the concept of PHP appears similar to that of JavaScript and other scripting languages that can be imbedded in traditional html code. It adds new capabilities and makes more complicated operations possible within the web environment.

However, the process of removing much of the processing from individual computers has some important benefits.

WORKLOAD

The user's computer is not required to do much of the processor-intensive work. This can speed page load times and generally ease the browsing experience. As well, PHP does not put a strain on servers. The code is optimized to make the server's job easier.

This fact and the cost savings that come with the open-source license are speeding the adoption of PHP over competitors like Microsoft's ASP.NET and Visual Basic.net and Sun Microsystems' Java.

CENTRALIZED DATA

By moving the processing onto the server, PHP makes the collection and use of data much more convenient. Data can be readily stored in databases and used in novel ways. Users have access to this centralized data. Web sites can be created that tap into this central reserve much more efficiently.

Developers benefit by streamlining the development process. PHP gives them much more freedom to create light, feature rich web sites that reuse common elements while still being connected to extended data sources.

[Alaysiadavis]

PHP is a license that is not copyrighted. This means that you do not have to pay any person to use it and no one can demand a fee for use at a later time. Infact, using the language has no direct cost at all.

[johnpitter]

PHP is server side scripting language. You can create very good dynamic pages with the help of PHP. There are also some other benefits of PHP like low cost of hosting.

[rivkelecruz]

This fact and the cost savings that come with the open-source license are speeding the adoption of PHP over competitors like Microsoft's ASP.NET and Visual Basic.net and Sun Microsystems' Java.

[gregsashinsky]

Great subject!!! The benefits of PHP includes are really good to know!

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[amazines]

That Why I am also using the PHP, PHP gives us more power and its easy to manage . Besides you can make any applications or website by PHP as quick as possible rather than other programing languages

[Allister]

Thanks for your valuable postings that is related to the benefits of PHP which are very helpful for me as I am new here and didn,t know about PHP a lot . It is such great source of information what I was desperately needed . Thanks

[publiair]

PHP has become the most popular Web programming language not only because it is free. PHP is a full-fledged programming language (unlike HTML for example, which is more of a presentation means) and many complex applications can be written it it.

Another benefit of applications written in PHP is that they are fast and if written properly, they could be pretty secure. There are also tons of ready PHP scripts and functions, which you can customize to your liking and use in your PHP applications.