Help DevShed Promote PHP Awareness, Literacy, and Development
PHP 3.0 is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language and it is a complete rewrite of the popular PHP/FI 2.0 language. This rewrite is faster, more robust and uses less memory than version 2. All users of version 2 are encouraged to upgrade.
If you are new to PHP, a good place to start discovering the power of this language is by clicking on the "Source" button in the top right corner of all the pages on this site. What you see is the actual PHP files that are behind each of the pages you are looking at.
Just like your C compiler or your favourite text editor, PHP is just about as year 2000 compliant as your pencil. If you're still worried (perhaps all pencils are built to break on December 31st 1999?) - read this.
DevShed.com will soon be creating a special section devoted to PHP3, and they need your help. DevShed is looking for PHP3 tutorials (2-3000 words) for various topics. DevShed will pay authors US$100, and will contribute a matching $100 to the PHP Development Fund for each article published. Contact php@devshed.com for more information.
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor was chosen as the official meaning of the PHP acronym with 53% of the votes. You can see the votes as well as some ideas to plenty of other unofficial meanings here.
The PHP site has been given a serious facelift recently. The design is courtesy of Colin Viebrock at Private World Communications. Please let us know of any problems with the site by sending a message to ">webmaster@php.net.