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- move some articles to the older news
- renamed "old_news.php3" to "oldinfo.php3" to avoid confusion
("oldnews" was older stuff on the In The News page, "old_news"
was older stuff from the main page.)
64 lines
2.5 KiB
PHP
64 lines
2.5 KiB
PHP
<?
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require("shared.inc");
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commonHeader("PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor");
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?>
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<h3>PHP in the News</h3>
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<P>
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<a href="http://www.netcraft.com">Netcraft's</a> February server survey results are
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out. They don't actually have scripting language number online at Netcraft, but
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they do a manual grep and email us this information monthly. Here is a little
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<a href="usage.php3">bar chart</a> showing the growth of PHP usage over the past
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couple of months.
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</P>
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<a href="http://www.zend.com/"><img align="right" src="zend_rgb-on-white1.gif" border="0"></a>
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<h3><b>Zend</b> has been announced</h3>
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<p>
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<b>Zend</b>, a new optimized engine for PHP has been <a href="http://www.zend.com/PR.html">announced</a>
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on January 4th, 1999.<br>
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Visit the <a href="http://www.zend.com/">Zend Web site</a>!
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</p>
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<h3>PHP 3.0.6 has been released!</h3>
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<p>
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December 24th, 1998. Merry Christmas! 3.0.6 is ready to go. This is mostly
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a maintenance release. Some new modules make their first apperance in this
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version. Support for Adobe PDF and FDF as well as XML and an initial Interbase
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module are now available. If you need any of these features, or if you see something
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in the <a href="ChangeLog.php3">ChangeLog</a> that might apply to you, then upgrade.
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</P>
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<h3>What is PHP?</h3>
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<P>
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PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.
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If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works,
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have a look at the <a href="tut.php3">Introductory Tutorial</a>. Once you get
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beyond that have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other
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resources available in the <a href="links.php3">Links</a> section.
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</P>
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<h3>So, how much does it cost?</h3>
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<P>
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This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix
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background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial
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and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends,
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print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to
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the world of <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> software!
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Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the
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official <a href="license.html">license</a>.
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</P>
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<h3>Year 2000 Compliance</h3>
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Just like your C compiler or your favourite text editor, PHP is just about as
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year 2000 compliant as your pencil. If you're still worried (perhaps all
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pencils are built to break on December 31st 1999?) -
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<a href="y2k.php3">read this</a>.
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<h3><a href="oldinfo.php3">Older information</a></h3>
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<?
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commonFooter();
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?>
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