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PHP was introduced in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf as a set of tools for web development, initially named 'Personal Home Page Tools.' Over the years, it evolved into a full programming language with significant contributions from developers like Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, leading to the release of PHP 3.0 and the Zend Engine. PHP has continued to develop, with features like dynamic typing, cross-platform compatibility, and database integration, culminating in versions up to PHP 5.4 and ongoing community support.

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PHP was introduced in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf as a set of tools for web development, initially named 'Personal Home Page Tools.' Over the years, it evolved into a full programming language with significant contributions from developers like Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, leading to the release of PHP 3.0 and the Zend Engine. PHP has continued to develop, with features like dynamic typing, cross-platform compatibility, and database integration, culminating in versions up to PHP 5.4 and ongoing community support.

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Origin and History

It was introduced in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the absolute first exhibition of PHP
was a direct arrangement of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) parallels inscribed in
the C programming language.

Initially utilized for ensuring visits to his internet-based resume, he named the
set-up contents " the Individual Home Page Tools," all the more normally referred
to as " the PHP Tools."

With time, furthermore, functionalities were wanted, and Lerdorf revised his PHP
Tools, capable of delivering a lot bigger and more extravagant execution.

This model now was capable of information base cooperation; this gives a structured
framework through which clients could faster basic powerful web applications.

In June of 1995, Lerdorf delivered his source code for the PHP Tools developers'
population, allowing engineers and developers worldwide to use it to their best
advantage.

This additionally allowed and urged clients to give bug fixes in the code and, for
the best part, to refine it.

In September 1995, Lerdorf redeveloped PHP, and he dropped the name PHP. Presently
alluding to the devices as FI (another way to say " Form Interpreter " ), the new
execution incorporated a portion of the fundamental usefulness of PHP as far as we
might be concerned today.

It had variables that were somewhat similar to Perl, form variables can be
automatically distinguished, and HTML imbibed syntax.

PHP resembles pearl in syntax but is considerably more limited, easy to use, and
unpredictable. Indeed, to imbibe the code into an HTML document, developers have to
utilize comments in HTML.

However, this strategy was not completely welcomed. FI kept getting popular as a
CGI instrument but not exactly as a language.

The language was purposely intended to look alike C in structure, making it a


simple reception for developers acquainted with C, Perl, and commonly available
languages.

Notwithstanding, this started to change the next month;

in October 1995, Lerdorf delivered a total revise of the code.

Bringing back the original name PHP, it was momentarily named "Personal Home Page
Construction Kit," It was only released to boast that it was the most advanced
scripting interface present.

In the midst of 1996, the previous code gets a total makeover. Using the names of
previous updates, Lerdorf reintroduced PHP - FI.
The next-generation implementations genuinely advance PHP from a set-up of
instruments into a programming language on its own.

It included pre-installed help for DBM, mSQL, Postgres95 databases, and


significantly more. PHP -FI was named version 2.0 in June 1996.

A fascinating reality regarding this is that there was just one full version of PHP
2.0.

At the point when PHP 2.0 at last escalated from the beta version in November 1997,
the latent parsing motor was at that point being remodified.

But it did not last very long, but still, the popularity and growth increased
amongst the young developers, and in 1997 and 1998, PHP - FI had a whooping
community of several thousand developers.

And the reports of the 1998 survey stated that around 60000 web domains contain PHP
as keywords. Dictating that the host server contains PHP as a base.

This was approximately 1% of all present domains over the internet. Notwithstanding
these amazing figures, the development of PHP - FI was ill-fated to restrictions;

while there were a few minor patrons, it was still basically evolved by a person.

PHP 3.0 was the major form that intently looks like PHP as of today.
Tracking down PHP - FI 2.0 version still was of no use and lacked highlights they
expected to drive an eCommerce application.
Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski of Tel Aviv, Israel, started one more complete
revision of the fundamental parser of PHP in 1997.

By 1998, soon after PHP 3.0 was authoritatively delivered, Andi and Zeev had
started chipping away at a modification of PHP's centre.

The new engine, named 'Zend Engine', fulfil these plan objectives excellently and
was first presented in mid - 1999. PHP 4.0, in light of this engine, and combined
with a wide scope of extra new elements, was authoritatively delivered in May 2000,
just about two years after its ancestor.

PHP 5 was designed in July 2004. Its core, the Zend Engine version 2.0, is
fundamentally controlled by its core, with many new elements.

PHP's advancement community incorporates many designers, just as handfuls others


chipping away at PHP-related and supporting undertakings, like PEAR, PECL, and
documentation.
PHP 6 and UNICODE
PHP 6 was introduced in 2005 as a project headed by Andrei Zmievski. He intended to
add Unicode support using PHP; he did so by imbibing the ICU library, also known as
international components Unicode. But due to a shortage of working staff, the
project was at a halt, and for the time being, PHP version 5.3 was introduced in
2009, followed by PHP 5.4 in 2010 with some features of UNICODE.

Features of PHP
Dynamic Typing: PHP is dynamically typed, meaning you don’t need to declare the
data type of a variable explicitly.

Cross-Platform: PHP runs on various platforms, making it compatible with different


operating systems.

Database Integration: PHP provides built-in support for interacting with databases,
such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others.

Server-Side Scripting: PHP scripts are executed on the server, generating HTML that
is sent to the client’s browser.

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