PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. After that, check out the online manual, and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the links section.
Ever wondered how popular PHP is? see the Netcraft Survey.
PHP is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.
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[21-Dec-2003] PHP 5.0 Beta 3 has been released. The third beta of PHP is also scheduled to be the last one (barring unexpected surprises). This beta incorporates dozens of bug fixes since Beta 2, better XML support and many other improvements, some of which are documented in the NEWS file.
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
[18-Dec-2003] Members of the PHP community are seeking volunteers to help develop the first Web site that is created both by the community and for the community. The features of this project will be driven by the needs and desires of the community as much as possible and may include such things as blogs, news, FAQs, articles, links, and tutorials.
If you would like to contribute, please contact Chris Shiflett, who is coordinating this project. There is a need for every type of contributor, including developers, translators, administrators, designers, writers, and advocates.
[15-Dec-2003] Software & Support Media, producers of the International PHP Conference, are pleased to announce a new monthly version of their print publication, the "International PHP Magazine", published in PDF format and distributed electronically. The first issue is available for free on the magazine's website.
[13-Dec-2003] The PHP Québec is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PHP Québec DVD. Over 6 hours of conferences, recorded in Montréal, in March 2003. DVD is subtitled in English and French, making legendary sessions from Rasmus and Zeev available anywhere in the world.
This DVD makes a nice christmas present for every PHP enthusiast. Available in English or French.
[12-Dec-2003] The Call for Participation for the 2004 MySQL User Conference is now open. MySQL is looking for sessions that speak to your peers: practical, pragmatic and clueful presentations that focus on how you solved problems in a demanding or unique technical environment. Additionally, the conference is looking for solid proposals for Bird-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions and Lightning Talks.
The call for papers closes on January 14th. The call for BoFs and lightning talks closes on February 14th. The conference will take place on April 14th to 16th in Orlando, Florida, USA.
[10-Dec-2003] The organizers of the International PHP Conference are proud to announce the second edition of the Intl PHP Conference 2004 Spring Edition in Amsterdam. Again, we'll meet at the RAI Conference Center for three days: one day with hands-on power workshops and two days main conference. The conference will happen from May, 3rd to May, 5th 2004.
The call for papers has been announced now. Just submit your sessions at http://www.phpconference.de/kt/input/ - they'll be reviewed by the Chair Board which consists this year of: Björn Schotte (chair), Zak Greant, Derick Rethans, George Schlossnagle, and Sascha Schumann. The full conference website will be online soon.
[01-Dec-2003] The First Bulgarian PHP conference will be held within the framework of the 2004 Web Technology Conference in Sofia in March. The goal of the meeting is to discuss the trends and to popularize PHP among the business, education and services sectors. The organizers welcome proposals for sessions and company presentations.
Also coming in March 2004 is the Second Hungarian PHP Conference building on last year's successful event. The Call For Papers is open for the conference, speakers are welcome to hold sessions and workshops ranging from PHP internals to web standard compliance. The event is exclusively in Hungarian.
[11-Nov-2003] The PHP Québec is pleased to announce the PHP Québec conference 2004, which will be held on March, 25th&26th 2004. We are looking for the best speakers, willing to share their experience and skills with the educated crowd of PHP programmers in eastern Canada and in the USA. PHP Québec 2004 features 3 distinct tracks:
[04-Nov-2003] You can probably name at least one IDE providing support for PHP function name code completion. PHP.net is just beta testing the same feature on the search page. Try selecting the 'function list' lookup option and start typing in a function name in the search field. You can autocomplete the name with the space key and navigate in the dropdown with the up and down cursor keys. We welcome feedback on this feature at the webmasters email address, but please submit any bugs you find in the bug system classifying them as a "PHP.net website problem" and providing as much information as possible (OS, Browser version, Javascript errors, etc..).
[03-Nov-2003] The PHP developers are proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.3.4. This release contains a fair number of bug fixes and we recommend that all users of PHP upgrade to this version. Full list of fixes can be found in the NEWS file.