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Originally Posted by johnny
Do you think that in the years to come php will loose its popularity to java, with all the new ajax features that have been recently added and become so  ely popular? |
If PHP does lose steam, which it wont, it would never be because of Java/AJAX. I think you misunderstand what Java, ajax, and php are used for and do.
First off there is a
e difference between Java and PHP. Java is client side and PHP is server side. There are things webmasters must do server side that would either not be possible with Java or very insecure doing client-side. As for AJAX lets not forget that the content AJAX produces is 90% of the time server side generated content by (you guessed it) PHP.
In conclusion, Java and AJAX are client side languages as PHP is server side (actually AJAX incorporates server and client side languages). There will always be the need for server side programming languages and thus Java, Flash, Javascript, and AJAX can not replace PHP. PHP's competitors include other server-side languages such as ASP and Perl. ASP really only runs under ISS (yes yes you can get it on linux) and Perl has clearly already lost to PHP in the cross-platform server-side web programming arena.
Since PHP runs on basically every platform you can run a web server on, and the fact that most web servers on the internet are Linux (or UNIX) based, I don't see PHP losing any "steam" anytime soon. PHP will probably only become more and more popular.