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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 January available

PHP Usage Stats Netcraft and E-Soft have published the January results for their Web Server surveys - both of which continue to show impressive growth for PHP. Check out the usage page.

PHP Conference - Call for Participation

The conference will be part of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention alongside the 5th annual Perl Conference at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, California, July 23-27, 2001. All the details on submitting talks are in the full CFP.

PHP 4.0.4 Released

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

PHP 3.0.18 released

October 21, 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 ChangeLog contains a full list of changes.

Improve your PHP skills

Looking for clear and useful guides to build dynamic web-sites using PHP? Our Books Resource Center 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 php.net/strlen.

Tips and Tricks Section

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

Zend Optimizer Released!

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

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 Introductory Tutorial. Once you get beyond that have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the Links 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 Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license.