Now-a-days dynamic and interactive web pages are mostly created in PHP. Of all the programmers hired today from offshore countries, PHP developers and programmers are hired the most. There are many reasons for the fact that PHP developers are in huge demand in global software development.

PHP is the best choice for executing many programming functions such as Array, String, Date, Directory, Error handling, Filesystem, Filter, FTP, HTTP, LibXML, Mail functions, Math functions, Misc functions, MySQL, SimpleXML functions, XML Parser and Zip functions. Thus PHP supports more than 700 functions which eventually reduces the complexities while programming.

PHP also supports multiple databases like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and MS Access. As it is a open source, web development in PHP does not involve much cost.

PHP websites are easy to customize and programmers can manipulate it to their way. There are many groups and forums that discuss common and strange errors while doing web development.

Popular CMS such as WordPress, JOOMLA/Virtuemart, Drupal are developed in PHP. Though Java and dot-net oriented websites provide much security and better resolution, PHP is preferred as most of the websites that are live today are not much security concerned.

There are so many in-built PHP scripts and applications available today. Clients prefer their dynamic websites to be built in PHP. Many websites which are developed in ASP are switched over to PHP as it is much faster than asp.

There are so many tutorials available in internet offering a pool of data to learn it quickly. There's no question, PHP programmers have good scope and future in web development.