Many of today’s world-famous programming languages are old enough. For example, PHP celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday, Python is also 24 years old, HTML has been in service for 22 years, Ruby and JavaScript have 20 years, Java just celebrated its 20th birthday some time ago, and C language has reached 43 years old. .
PHP (full name: PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, i.e. "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is an open source general-purpose computer scripting language, especially suitable for network development and can be embedded in HTML. The syntax of PHP draws on the characteristics of popular computer languages such as C language, Java and Perl, making it easy for ordinary programmers to learn. The main goal of PHP is to allow web developers to quickly write dynamic pages, but PHP is also used in many other areas.
PHP was originally developed by Ledolf in 1995. It was officially named "Personal Home Page Tools" on June 8, 1995, using the name "PHP" for the first time.
PHP standards are now maintained by the PHP Group and the open source community. PHP uses PHP License as its license agreement.
PHP has a wide range of applications, especially in the development of web programs. Generally speaking, PHP is mostly run on a web server, and the web pages browsed by users are generated by running PHP code. PHP can run on most servers and operating systems, and using PHP is completely free. According to statistics from April 2013, PHP has been installed on more than 244 million websites and 2.1 million servers.
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