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Information on PHP
- PHP development began in 1994 when the developer Rasmus Lerdorf wrote a series of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Perl scripts, which he used to maintain his personal homepage.
- The tools performed tasks such as displaying his résumé and recording his web traffic.
- He rewrote these scripts in C for performance reasons, extending them to add the ability to work with web forms and to communicate with databases, and called this implementation "Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter" or PHP/FI.
- PHP/FI could be used to build simple, dynamic web applications.
- Lerdorf initially announced the release of PHP/FI as "Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0" publicly to accelerate bug location and improve the code, on the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Usenet discussion group on June 8, 1995.
- This release already had the basic functionality that PHP has as of 2013.
- This included Perl-like variables, form handling, and the ability to embed HTML.
- The syntax resembled that of Perl but was more limited and simpler, although less consistent.
- A development team began to form and, after months of work and beta testing, officially released PHP/FI 2 in November 1997.
- Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
- Afterward, public testing of PHP 3 began, and the official launch came in June 1998.
- Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP's core, producing the Zend Engine in 1999.
- They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel.
- On May 22, 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, was released.
- As of August 2008 this branch reached version 4.4.9.
- PHP 4 is no longer under development nor will any security updates be released.
- On July 13, 2004, PHP 5 was released, powered by the new Zend Engine II.
- PHP 5 included new features such as improved support for object-oriented programming, the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension (which defines a lightweight and consistent interface for accessing databases), and numerous performance enhancements.