Kevin Schroeder , in his move towards doing some mobile development, has a new post to his blog about why he’s still going to stick with PHP for the backend of this new development work. I do like working with client/server-like architectures and so I intend to be building apps that have a fair amount of server-side processing to back it up. More details on that to come in the next few months. I have decided that, for the time being, to use PhoneGap for my frontend development. So the question was what to use for the backend development and, to nobody’s surprise I presume, PHP is my chosen way to go. Some of his reasons for the choice include: PHP is stupid easy to scale It is tied to the web (Available) Frameworks Tons of blogs It integrates with everything Check out the post for more of
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Kevin Schroeder’s Blog: 10 reasons to use PHP