PHP is not a web framework like Django, it's a language like Python.There are however, many good Django like PHP frameworks.
Just wanted to clarify.
PHP is not a web framework like Django, it's a language like Python.There are however, many good Django like PHP frameworks.
Just wanted to clarify.
Look at how it started, as personal home page template processing scripts in Perl, and you'll see it started with much more in common with a templating tool or web framework than with a formal language.
"PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple set of Perl scripts for tracking accesses to his online resume. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. As more functionality was required, Rasmus wrote a much larger C implementation, which was able to communicate with databases, and enabled users to develop simple dynamic Web applications..."
"PHP/FI, which stood for Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter, included some of the basic functionality of PHP as we know it today. It had Perl-like variables, automatic interpretation of form variables and HTML embedded syntax."
But to your point, he also said: "I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems."