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PHP

Also Known As PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
Scripting Language

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. Development began in 1993 when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote several Common Gateway Interface programs in C, and he announced the public release of Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) on 8 June 1995. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
First Released
1995 1
First public release (Personal Home Page Tools) on 8 June 1995; the underlying CGI tools date to 1993.
Paradigm
Multi-paradigm: imperative, functional, object-oriented, procedural, reflective. 1
Significance
PHP grew from Lerdorf's CGI tools into one of the most widely used web scripting languages; well over half of live PHP websites still run unsupported versions, a measure of both its ubiquity and its legacy-maintenance burden. 1
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Connections

Base Language For

CakePHP, Frameworks

CakePHP is written in PHP.

CodeIgniter, Frameworks

CodeIgniter is written in PHP.

Laminas, Frameworks

Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminas: "Laminas Project (formerly Zend Framework or ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 7."

Laravel, Frameworks

Laravel is a PHP-based web framework created by Taylor Otwell.

Symfony, Frameworks

Symfony is a PHP web application framework and component library.

In Field

Software Engineering, Fields
Source Wikipedia: PHP

Influenced By

C, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: PHP
Perl, Programming Languages
Source Wikipedia: PHP

Invented By

Rasmus Lerdorf, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: PHP
Sources
1. Wikipedia: PHP
Wikimedia Foundation
  • History section
    Lerdorf initially announced the release of PHP/FI as Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0 on the Usenet discussion group comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi on 8 June 1995.
  • Infobox
  • Lead section
    PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
  • Invented By: Rasmus Lerdorf
  • In Field: Software Engineering
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