PHP has been around since 1995 and it was originally developed for creating dynamic websites. Since then, it has become the most widely used language for creating dynamic sites. Today, over 80% of the 100 million websites are created using PHP.
PHP is a server-side scripting language that runs on Apache or Nginx web servers. It allows developers to create dynamic websites using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The language is open source and can be downloaded for free.
Python is a programming language that is becoming increasingly popular because of its simplicity, readability and ease of learning. Python is not only simple, but also powerful and flexible. If you want to create a dynamic website, you should use Python instead of PHP.
Modern websites are dynamic, which means that the content and parts of a website can change without reloading the page. To teach PHP this dynamic nature, you need to use JavaScript, which communicates with PHP in the background.
A major disadvantage of Python is that this programming language is not widely used on the web. PHP is included in almost all web hosting plans, while Python can be used with maybe one out of ten web hosts.
So, if you decide to use Python, you will have to rent your own server or VPS and set up all the technology there and also manage it to use Python for the web. This task is not a piece of cake and makes Python unattractive for web use.
With PHP, things look much simpler...
You access any web host, even a cheap one, and you can usually use PHP right away without any detours. For this reason, you should prefer PHP over Python when it comes to web applications, especially if you already know PHP.
In theory, Python can certainly replace PHP on the web. Once the barrier of Python availability with web hosts is removed and Python can be used as easily as PHP, Python could grab a large market share from PHP on the web.
