PHP is currently the most popular server-side web programming language and is widely used by web and application developers to create websites and web applications.
PHP stands for Hypertext Pre-processors, formerly an abbreviation for the personal home page. It is an open-source server-side programming language used for web application development. A scripting language is a script-based program (line of code) created to automate a task.
Laravel is an open-source web MVC framework written in PHP. It is a more secure, advanced, and easy PHP framework that provides easy development of PHP web applications with features like access to relational databases, a modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager, and other utilities for application deployment and maintenance.
Laravel is robust and easy to understand. It follows a model-view-controller design pattern. Laravel reuses the existing components of different frameworks which helps in creating a web application.
The web application thus designed is more structured and pragmatic.
WordPress, Joomla, Magento, open-source software and scripts that are popular, such as Drupal are written in PHP. PHP runs over 80% of websites on the Internet today. Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Twitter, Digg, Flipkart, Flickr, etc., are some of the busiest Web sites today, it is running in PHP and MySQL. Widely used in web development due to its growing open-source community, simplicity and high performance.