Php

Mitchel_B3ll · #1 (**permalink**) 11-12-10, 10:25

Does anyone know how long PHP has been around for? Has it been more than ten years? Does the development of PHP make continual progress?

BoD - Chris · #2 (**permalink**) 11-12-10, 15:04

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Originally Posted by Mitchel_B3ll

Does anyone know how long PHP has been around for? Has it been more than ten years? Does the development of PHP make continual progress?

Rasmus Lerdorf released PHP publicly on June 8, 1995 to accelerate bug location and improve the code. This release was named PHP version 2 and already had the basic functionality that PHP has today.

php 3 was released in 1997 , On May 22 2000 PHP 4 and On July 13 2004, PHP 5

and has been in continuous development ever since

And no doubt php is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language

11anais · #3 (**permalink**) 11-21-10, 12:44

I did not know PHP has been around for so long. Considering that it is over 15 years old now and still gets upgrade I think it is a pretty safe bet. I thought it hit the scene in 2000, but maybe that is just when I caught on! Interesting info!

Mitchel_B3ll · #4 (**permalink**) 11-21-10, 13:44

Thank you for the history lesson. I also was not aware that it has been around for as long as it have. I always enjoy learning web history, it is such a facinating topic!

annyphp · #5 (**permalink**) 12-07-10, 02:35

The development process of PHP was started in 1994 as a set of Common Gateway Interface binaries written in 'C'-language by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was released publicly on June 8, 1995. The variables, form handling process, and the ability to embed HTML coding is much like Perl.

Two developers from Technion IIT of Israel, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans rewrote the parser in 1997 and laid the base of PHP 3. The official launch of PHP 3 came in June 1998. Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP's core, producing the Zend Engine in 1999.

PHP 4 was released on May 22, 2004, it was powered by Zend engine 1.0. Then PHP 5 was released on July 13, 2004 powered by the new Zend Engine II. PHP 5 included better support for OOP and other enhancements. Late static binding was included in PHP 5.3. PHP 6 is under developed and it will be released soon, it will remove many functions which are present in PHP 5.3 and if any user wiill try to use those functions then a warning message will be generated.