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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List of changes can be found in the NEWS file.
[15-Aug-2003] The Active Awards are held annually to honor members of the open source community who actively contribute to open source languages and display excellence in their programming efforts. Programmers' Choice Award winners were nominated and chosen by the open source community. Activators' Choice Award winners were chosen by ActiveState's development team.
This year's nominees were: Monte Ohrt, Paul S. Owen, Stanislav Malyshev, Stig Bakken and Wez Furlong. The Programmers' Choice winner is Stig Bakken, the father of PEAR. The Activators' Choice winner is Ilia Alshanetsky, member of the PHP Quality Assurance team, developer of the fudforum package, and a major contributor to PHP development.
[15-Aug-2003] Ever wonder what was the original PHP 3.0 release announcement, what where the choices when the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor name was choosen, or since when you can use URL shortcuts to access pieces of our site? We have digged up some of the most interesting news items published on PHP.net since January 1998, when the site started to serve its visitors. You can find these in the news archives. There is also some historical information in the manual's history appendix.
[13-Aug-2003] The www.php.net site tries to do the best to choose close mirrors based on all available data when redirecting users to mirror sites. Sometimes close mirror sites are unfortunately not the fastest. This is why we have added the mirror site selection possibility to our My PHP.net service, which enables users to select a specific mirror site for redirections.
[12-Aug-2003] The International PHP Magazine web site now offers daily news for PHP professionals and beginners from all over the world, helping them to stay up-to-date with the latest news on PHP and related technologies.
[07-Aug-2003] PHP 4.3.3RC3 has been released for testing. This is should be the last release candidate prior to the final 4.3.3 release. Please test this release as much as possible, so that any remaining issues can be uncovered and resolved.
List of changes can be found in the NEWS file.
[29-Jul-2003] After many of our users requested a change in how our URL shortcuts behave when someone mistypes a shortcut, the default behaviour now is to look for a function name instead of performing a documentation search on Google. Those, who were satisfied with the Google search, can set their preference at the My PHP.net page. We are working on a better onsite search solution, Google is used temporarily to search our site.
[17-Jul-2003] The publishers of php|architect, a monthly magazine dedicated exclusively to the world of PHP, have announced the availability of a print edition of their publication. Subscriptions are now available at a special introductory price for readers worldwide.
[06-Jul-2003] From July, 10th to 13th 2003 LinuxTag, Europe's largest Fair and Congress dedicated to Open Source in general and Linux in particular, takes place in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Under the motto "PHP and Friends" the PHP Project showcases PHP and related projects, like MySQL, SQLite, Midgard, osCommerce or DB Designer, at booth F21. In addition to the booth "PHP and Friends" offer an interesting programme of technical talks and workshops which are held by 24 speakers from 11 nations and cover the latest trends and technologies related to PHP, Apache and MySQL. Among the speakers are core developers of the discussed Open Source projects, for instance Ken Coar (Apache), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) or Kaj Arnö (MySQL).
[29-Jun-2003] The PHP development community is proud to announce the release of PHP 5 Beta 1. Both source packages, and a Windows build are available in the Downloads Section. A list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog file.
Some of the more major changes include:
Note: This is a beta version. It should not be used in production or even semi-production web sites. There are known bugs in it, and in addition, some of the features may change (based on feedback). We encourage you to download and play with it (and report bugs if you find any!), but please do not replace your production installations of PHP 4 at this time.
[24-Jun-2003] Zend Technologies is sponsoring a public PHP Usage Survey. The results will be shared with the PHP Group, and will help us to better understand the ways in which PHP is being used, and what may need improvement. Fill it out and get a chance to win one of 50 PHP T-shirts!
[24-Jun-2003] The traditional International PHP Conference 2003 will be taking place from 2nd November to 5th November in Frankfurt (FFM). The Call for Papers has been issued, so if you have an interesting talk, the organizers would love to hear about it! You can expect a gathering of PHP experts and core developers and to focus on PHP 5 as the main topic for the conference.
You can find the CfP on the website. The deadline is 14th July, 2003.
The conference is also featuring an OpenSource Exhibition where PHP related OpenSource projects can present themselves for free.
[29-May-2003] The PHP developers are proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.3.2. This release contains a large number of bug fixes and is a strongly recommended update for all users of PHP. Full list of fixes can be found in the NEWS file.
[23-May-2003] In our ongoing battle to fight load and keep serving you content, whenever you perform a search on www.php.net, you will be redirected onto a nearby mirror (determined using the Directi Ip-to-Country Database). You may experience a few quirks in the search until your mirrors have synced an up-to-date version of the site.