What is PHP?

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the ' . make_link("/tut.php", "introductory tutorial") . '. After that, check out the online ' . make_link("/docs.php", "manual") . ', and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the ' . make_link("/links.php", "links section") . '.

PHP is a project of the ' . make_link("http://www.apache.org/","Apache Software Foundation") . '.

' . make_link("/thanks.php", "Thanks To") . '

  ' . make_link("http://www.synacor.com/", "Synacor") . '
  ' . make_link("http://www.easydns.com/?V=698570efeb62a6e2", "easyDNS") . '
  ' . make_link("http://www.pair.com/", "pair Networks") . '
  ' . make_link("http://www.rackspace.com/?supbid=php.net", "Rackspace") . '
  ' . make_link("http://valinux.com/", "VA Linux Systems") . '

Related sites

  ' . make_link("http://www.apache.org/", "Apache") . '
  ' . make_link("http://www.mysql.com/", "MySQL") . '
  ' . make_link("http://www.postgresql.org/", "PostgreSQL") . '
  ' . make_link("http://www.zend.com/", "Zend Technologies") . '

Community

  ' . make_link("http://www.linuxfund.org/", "LinuxFund.org") . '
  ' . make_link("http://www.osdn.org/", "OSDN") . '

Contact

Please submit website bugs in the ' . make_link('http://bugs.php.net/', 'bug system') . '.

You can contact the webmaster at ' . make_link('mailto:webmaster@php.net', 'webmaster@php.net') . '.

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PHP-GTK Documentation Update

[18-Oct-2001] is starting to be more filled out. The manual is now rebuilt every night and of it in different formats are also available. If you have been working with PHP-GTK and would like to contribute to the documentation effort, please let us know.

New Usage Stats For September available

[01-Oct-2001] and have published the for their Web Server surveys.

Rackspace providing additional hosting for PHP project

[17-Sep-2001] Thanks to the generous folks at Rackspace, we have added additional capacity for hosting the PHP project's efforts. Currently, the machine they have provided is serving downloads for www.php.net and snaps.php.net. We will continue to re-balance our resource needs across all of the machines provided by our supporters.

11.09.2001

[11-Sep-2001] The worldwide PHP community is horrified by recent events and would like to offer its deepest sympathies to the friends and families of those who lost their lives. Support the Red Cross.

Manual notes are mirrored worldwide

[28-Aug-2001] There is no need now to come to the main php.net server, if you would like to read the manual notes, as they are mirrored worldwide, and you can read them on all our mirror sites. You can get better response times by visiting the closest mirror. See the bottom of our pages.

International PHP Conference in Frankfurt (November 5-7, 2001)

[17-Aug-2001] PHP enthusiasts from all over the world will meet three days to attend powerworkshops and sessions presented by the inventors of PHP, members of the core group and other well known people from the community. More information at www.php-conference.de.

PHP-GTK version 0.1 released

[02-Aug-2001] The 0.1 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. Win32 binary version should be available a little later.

Note that this version requires PHP CVS version to compile, but it can be run under 4.0.5 and later.

A talk on PHP-GTK was presented by Andrei Zmievski and Frank Kromann at the 2001 O'Reilly Open Source Conference in San Diego. The slides from the talk can be viewed online. For more information, visit .

PHP Conference

[29-Jul-2001] The first official PHP Conference, part of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, brought the community together for sessions and tutorials designed to explore and strengthen PHP in the open source space. The conference was at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, California between July 23-27, 2001. Some presentations, you can see online:

You can also download some papers from the O'Reilly FTP site

Mailing lists and CVS are up!

[1-Jul-2001] The disturbances in the mailing lists and CVS services that happened in the last few weeks are now gone, hopefully for good. This is thanks to a brand new server donated by pair Networks. Thanks!

PHP 4.0.6 Released!

[23-Jun-2001] PHP 4.0.6 is a maintenance release, that features many bug fixes from PHP 4.0.5, and is especially much more efficient in its memory requirements. Users that skipped the 4.0.5 upgrade may wish to jump directly from 4.0.4 to the much more stable 4.0.6. For a full list of changes, check out the Change Log.

LinuxTag 2001 in Europe

[14-Jun-2001] LinuxTag 2001 was in Stuttgart, Germany, between July 5th-8th. PHPUG.De has a report on the PHP events at LinuxTag.

[11-Apr-2001] You may have missed the conference, but you can see some of the presentations online. Check out:

Improve Your PHP Skills

Looking for clear and useful guides to build dynamic web-sites using PHP? Our lists now more than 60 books in eleven different languages. If you know about more PHP-related books, tell us about them!

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!