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ompanies are now expanding their business realms and increasingly moving online to build a strong customer base as well as augment their cash flows. In an effort to garner more website traffic, which means boosting revenues, organisations are increasingly hiring PHP professionals to design customised and eye-catching Web portals. Backed by an open source ecosystem, PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) development has turned out to be not just cost-effective, but also the most preferred choice in the business circuits. Statistics reveal that almost 40 per cent of the portals online (like Yahoo, Wikipedia, Facebook, Flickr, etc) use PHP as a server side scripting language. As the market in PHP development is expected to offer a wide range of opportunities in the years to come, a career in this domain can be extremely fulfilling.
PHP development: A popular career option!
While IT companies are increasingly adopting policies to recruit and retain the best PHP development talent, IT
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training institutes across the country too are witnessing a healthy rise in the number of queries received for a course in this domain. The training institutes are making the most of this trend and offering relevant courses to meet the growing requirements. Isha Malhotra, director, Tech Altum, Noida, says, “The increased career opportunities in PHP development have evoked a certain amount of interest in the aspiring IT students, and the influx of aspirants joining this course in our institute bears testimony to the fact. Not just that, if you take a cursory glance at the online job postings, you will discover vacancies on PHP development appearing every two days.” So what makes PHP Web development one of the most sought after career options? Any programming language that is easy to learn, execute and operate naturally appeals to a novice programmer and that explains why PHP is a hit in the recruitment landscape, feels Ram Kumar, manager, Operations, Beeflex Education, Bengaluru. “Compared to ASP.net, Java.net, C, C++ or any other software
