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I need some good professional advice from some of you.

Till now I had worked in c and C++ with having a good exposure to telecom background.This is around 8 years since I am working on these languages.

How it would be to move into the domain of PHP/web developer from C/C++ domain?

My question is specific in terms of career growth perspective in terms of salary and opportunities.

If anyone have any practical experience when he/she did so(changed from C/C++ to PHP) in past?

How he felt that change helped him in his over all career?

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Point 1: It depends upon your interest.

Point 2: Say if you go in for PHP, you can be a part of a web startup or else you can be part of Internet Giants like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay, Twitter etc. If you are a part of either then all the backend stuff involving Algorithms like search, recommendation engines, document clustering, distributed computing stuff would be done in either C++ or Java (Examples: Google Search (C++), Apache Solr/Hadoop (Java), Sphinx Search (C++)), the front end would/can be php. So now you can very well understand the importance of being a C++ developer as compared to PHP Developer. Again go to point 1 if it does not satisfy you. Also it depends on which company you are working for and type of work you are doing. If you are doing C++ in a service based company, probably you may be earning less as conmpared to if you are a PHP developer at Amazon or Ebay. It all depends. But to reiterate C++ is superior IMO.

Point 3: IMO learn php (learning curve would be very fast as you know C++) and then join an Internet Company where you can contritube to both sides of development i.e backend & frontend (you can get such stuff in a web startup). That will really be good for your career as you will come to know the complete system from front end to backend.

Point 4: Point 1 is really important. If you enjoy WYSIWYG kind a stuff then go for all web based technologies like PHP, Javascript, AJAX etc. That world is also fascinating.

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