Why is PHP a secure server-side language?
A fashion with a lot of fresh Web Designers is to blindly go for ASP or JSP for creating dynamic
and interactive websites. Why use PHP for server-side scripting? This query comes in mind of a
lot of Web Designers, particularly in mind of designers/programmers who are only exposed to
much overvalued server side scripting languages such as ASP or JSP.
PHP is certainly a great option for dynamic websites and a lot of popular websites do use PHP
as a scripting language. In this forum I want to bring into light why use PHP for server-side
scripting when there is ASP and JSP around.
Why PHP?
PHP runs on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. PHP is easy and fast to learn and runs capably on the server side. C programmers can easily master PHP as the PHP syntax is fairly similar to C.
PHP is well-matched with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.). PHP supports many databases such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL etc. PHP with MySQL database and Apache Server is a very good and popular combination. PHP combined with MySQL are cross-platform.
PHP is the widely-used, free, and capable alternative to competitors such as Microsoft’s ASP and Sun Microsystems JSP. PHP is perfectly suited for Web development and can be embedded directly into the HTML code. PHP is often used together with Apache (web server) on various operating systems. It can be also used with Microsoft’s IIS on Windows.
For PHP to be secure you should use a framework that mitigates INJECTION, CSRF and XSS attacks by santising user input otherwise you are likely to have a vulnerable site due to the following known issues with PHP.
PHP was designed strictly for the web and remains one of the most widely used languages around.Also it has secure methods to access data. It’s easy to install and deploy, is staying competitive with lots of modern frameworks.
