PHP History

PHP is a technology that was introduced in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Some early unpublished version used on his personal site for anyone who is accessing the record resumes onlinennya. The first version used by the other party in early 1995 and is known as Personal Home Page Tools. Contained in a parser engine (decomposer engine), which greatly simplified, which can only treat the special macros and a few utilities that are often used in making the home page, like a guestbook, counter, and things like that. Parser was rewritten in the mid-1995 and named PHP / FI Versiaon 2. FI (Form Interprenter) itself comes from another code, written also by Rasmus, which translates the HTML from the data. He combined the Personal Home Page tools scripts with the Form Interprenter and added support for database servers that use the format that was born MSQL PHP / FI. PHP / FI has grown rapidly, and people began preparing its program code that can be supported by PHP.
Difficult to provide accurate statistical data, but is expected in late 1996 PHP / FI was used at least 15 000 websites worldwide. In mid 1997, these figures changed to 50 000. At that moment there is a change in PHP development. PHP Rasmus changed from a personal project into a more organized team. Parsernya rewritten from scratch by Zeev draft form Suraski and Andi Gutmans and this new parser is as a basis for PHP Version 3. Many utility code from PHP / FI diport to PHP3, and many of them are finished completely rewritten.

In mid-1998, both PHP / FI or PHP3 comes packaged with commercial products such as artificial C2 Stronghold web server and RedHat Linux, and according to a survey conducted by Netcraft, PHP is used on the possibility of more than 150,000 Web sites worldwide. As a comparison, the figure is more than the web server user netscape artificial Enterprise server on the Internet.
What is PHP
PHP stands for Personal Home Page Tools, is a scripting language that is bundled with the HTML, which is run server side. Most of the orders came from C, Java and Perl with some additional special functions of PHP. This language allows a web application makers presents a dynamic and interactive HTML pages quickly and easily, the resulting server. PHP is also intended to replace the old technology such as CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
PHP can interact with almost any existing web technologies. Developers can write a PHP program which executes a CGI program on another web server. This flexibility is very useful for owners of web sites large and busy, because the owners could still use the applications already made in the past with CGI, suction, or with scripts such as Perl, AWK or Python during the process of migrating to new applications made with PHP. This is to simplify and broaden the transition between old technology and new technology.
Some advantages of PHP from other programming languages;;

* The programming language PHP is a scripting language that does not do a compilation of usages.
* In pemahamanan side, PHP is a scripting language most easily because it references a lot.
* PHP is an open source language that can be used in various machines (linux, unix, windows) and can be done in runtime through the console and also can run system commands.
* Web Server that supports PHP can be found where - where from the start IIS to Apache, with a relatively simple configuration.
* In a side development easier, because of the many mailing lists - mailing lists and developer who is ready to assist in the development.

source: Wikipedia

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