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PHP is for the backend too.

• ihsw 14y ago
  PHP doesn't support multi-threading -- or concurrency of any kind at all because it's not thread-safe.
  • encoderer 14y ago
    No threading is accurate, and that makes it less ideal than many languages. But it does provide thin wrappers over process forking and implementations/wrapper of libraries necessary for IPC (eg SysV queues, shared memory, semaphores, pipes and sockets).
• randomdata 14y ago
  PHP is generally geared towards the application, not the backend. The backend is comprised of things like database servers, message queue systems, etc. It is, of course, not impossible to implement those services with PHP, but I don't think it is very common. Java, C, and C++ have been the traditional languages for that level with a few other more esoteric ones mixed in on occasion for certain tasks.