A certain kind of developer loves to hate on PHP. They are really going to hate where PHP's custodians are taking it next. PHP was created by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. In 1997, Israeli ...

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...

Support for PHP 5.6 drops on December 31 – but a recent report found that almost 62 percent of websites are still using version 5. Almost 62 percent of all websites are still running PHP version 5 – ...

The number of Internet servers that run the PHP language is incredible: According to Netcraft, as of January, 2012, something around 244,000,000 web sites were running PHP and according to a May, 2015 ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...