PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian See more

The following "Hello, World!" program is written in PHP code embedded in an HTML document:
However, as no … See more

PHP is free software released under the PHP License, which stipulates that:
Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", … See more

PHP includes various free and open-source libraries in its source distribution or uses them in resulting PHP binary builds. PHP is fundamentally an Internet-aware system with built-in … See more

Early history
PHP development began in 1993 when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote several Common Gateway Interface (CGI) … See more

The mascot of the PHP project is the elePHPant, a blue elephant with the PHP logo on its side, designed by Vincent Pontier in 1998. "The (PHP) letters were forming the shape … See more

The only complete PHP implementation is the original, known simply as PHP. It is the most widely used and is powered by the Zend Engine. To disambiguate it from other … See more