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Optimisers offer dramatic performance gains by [[caching]] the compiled form of a PHP script in RAM (or disk) to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling the code every time the script is run. They also restructure the code to provide performance gains. Both commercial (e.g. Zend Platform) and open source optimisers (xcache, eAccelerator, APC) are available.

=== Editors and IDEs ===

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Information about [[PHP IDE]].

[[List of PHP editors]]

=== Debuggers ===

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== Support ==

PHP has a formal development manual that is maintained by the [[free software community]]. In addition, answers to most questions can often be found by doing a simple internet search. PHP users assist each other through various media such as chat, forums, newsgroups and PHP developer web sites. In turn, the PHP development team actively participates in such communities, garnering assistance from them in their own development effort (PHP itself) and providing assistance to them as well. There are many help resources available for the novice PHP programmer.

PHP is one of the most popular programming languages as of November 2006, ranked the 4th or the 5th among the many, only behind adoption of [[Java]], [[C]], and [[C++]] while wrestling with [[Visual Basic]] according to a [http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm monthly statistic] by [[TIOBE Software]].

PHP can be deployed on any [[web server]], or on almost every [[OS]] platform, with totally free of charge. PHP also provide [http://www.php.net/downloads/ complete source code] for user to customize and extend for their own use. Compared with [[java]], php is much easier for study, handy for deployment, while [[Microsoft]]'s [[.net]] platform is considered strictly [[proprietary]] and costly.

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*[[Phalanger (compiler)]]

*[[PhpBB]]

*[[List of PHP editors]]

== Notes and references ==