New Site Design

You might notice that things look a little different around here. We've streamlined the site, with a new design from the esteemed Colin Viebrock. Bear with us while we shake out the bugs that are surely lingering behind this new facade.

Announcing PHP-GTK

The first release of PHP-GTK is now available. PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ toolkit and enables you to write client-side cross-platform GUI applications. For more information, visit .

Patch Level 1 released for PHP 4.0.4

Due to two security issues found in the Apache module version of PHP 4.0, PHP 4.0.4pl1 has been released. This bug-fix release also fixes a few party-crashing bugs that were discovered in PHP 4.0.4.

New Usage Stats For February Available

and have published the February results for their Web Server surveys - both of which continue to show impressive growth for PHP. Check out the .

PHP Conference - Call For Participation

The conference will be part of the alongside the 5th annual Perl Conference at the , San Diego, California, July 23-27, 2001. All the details on submitting talks are in the full .

PHP 4.0.4 Released

19-Dec-2000 -- This release includes improvements for a large number of defects and numerous enhancements in the PHP core, the language implementation and extensions. and .

PHP 3.0.18 Released

21-Oct-2000 -- PHP 3.0.18 was released. This is a bug-fix release, including fixes for file uploads and a backported imagetypes() function from PHP 4.0. The contains a full list of changes.

Improve Your PHP Skills

Looking for clear and useful guides to build dynamic web-sites using PHP? Our lists now more than a dozen books in eight different languages. If you know about more PHP-related books, tell us about them!

Manual Search Tip

You can go directly to PHP manual pages with a URL such as .

Tips and Tricks Section

Check out our page for some "neat" things, PHP-related. It's a little sparse right now, but feel free to make suggestions!

Zend Optimizer Released

has announced the availability of the Zend Optimizer for PHP 4.0. The optimizer is available for .

What Is PHP?

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at the . Once you get beyond that, have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the section.

So, How Much Does It Cost?

This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official .