Is PHP compatible with Java

Answer 1

I think both of them are very good and useful, but they are different of course, for example java is more secure and safe programming, but is also depended how Web Browsers support it, php is the programming which is relevant for all web servers.

Answer 2

If you are doing plain data transfer and processing between client-server-database then php is better. If you are making some complicated stuff like making widgets or web apps then obviously java beans is suited

Answer 3

PHP and Java are entirely different languages. (and JavaScript is a third language, not to be confused with Java.)

PHP is normally used on the web server, and it produces plain HTML or XHTML output (most of the time.) It's possible to use Java in the same way (using servlets or JSP.) If you are programming on the web server, it's best to pick one language and stay with it. It would be possible to combine both languages, but not advisable.

Java can also be used on the client as an applet. This is a separate program embedded into the web page (much like Flash applets) The applet and the server-side PHP are completely unrelated, so they can coexist without any problems. It's possible to make these elements communicate with each other, but there are much easier ways.

JavaScript is the language embedded into most web browsers. This language is perfect for client-side form-validation, and is the foundation of AJAX. It's extremely common for a web site to have aspects written in PHP (or Java, or ASP.NET) on the server and JavaScript on the client.

Answer 4

Don't really understand the question but if you are askin wheter Java is a good, if not the best, choice for programming then no.

Java has like all other programming languages its pros and cons.

Pros: easy, portable, very fast coding time, very good existing apis. Pretty easy to run it from the web with either webstart or applets.

Cons: interpreted on a virtual machine, making it relativly slow, some functionality that more hardcore programmers wish were exposed are not(like memory management and pointers/references/copies). No native instructions for graphics hardware, you mostly have to go through existing graphics API's, which to me at least feels pretty silly.

I actually find java pretty good for graphics development, nowdays with transform feedbacks and geometry shaders, you can do very many things related to graphics that traditionally was best done with programming languages with better performance(closer to the hardware). Though if you were to do something that required very much sorting on the cpu, like maybe a complex scenegraph or BSP, you would be better of with C++.