PHP advantages

• PHP is offering a variety of security mechanisms.
• it is a better choice of modular programming as it has easy connectivity abilities.
• PHP has ability to  easily be interfaced with a variety of libraries, xml’s.
• Open source software makes it best attractive choice for every one.
• Easy to remember the syntax,  syntax is like to C and C++.
• Easily can create,manage  dynamic web pages with PHP.
• PHP People Community, a good place where people can make their scripts and post relating to the requirement.

PHP Advantage over Java:

• PHP: easy and simple language built  for web applications
• PHP: open source and  customization becomes convenient.
• PHP: easily integrates with variety of database, both open-source (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite) and commercial (Oracle, MS SQL Server); while Java relies on JDBC drivers for database connectivity.