The application of PHP in the abstract is the application of an object oriented and used friendly scripting language. It is user friendly trait that makes this free open source program secure its place and applicability in software like LAMP.

php application is more applicable as PHP is an example of FOSS (Free or open source software). How does a software component expand its capability by being a FOSS? For this let’s see what each word of the acronym imply in software application.

Innumerable soft wares are being developed by the minute. Many makers of proprietary software reserve the copyright and effort to secure it by not making the source code available. Many others pioneered programs by complying with copy left rights and so made the source code available. By distributing software and its source code the user was allowed to copy it freely, examine and modify the source code, and redistribute the software to others (free or priced) as long as the redistributed software is also passed along with the copy left stipulation.

In case of PHP this FOSS implication is what expanded its application from a mere object oriented script. FOSS components are the perseverance of long-time movement toward software that is developed and improved by a group of volunteers cooperating together on a network and so has seen revolutionary changes.

UNIX, LINUX and even the recent Netscape browser stands exemplary of the difference they make. Evidently this indigenous scripting language too revolutionized and many of its versions saw light. This yielded to its wild applicability which is exemplarily witnessed in LAMP application.