PHP original abbreviation for Home Page Personal, has officially changed its name to "Hypertext Preprocessor PHP:"". That is not a "Hypertext Preprocessor" acronym, the name in the definition of the style is called a recursive acronym. PHP was founded in 1994 by Lerdorf Rasmus, has just started to Lerdorf Rasmus in order to maintain personal web pages and the production of a simple program written in Perl language. These tools are used to show the Lerdorf Rasmus's personal history, as well as the statistics of web traffic. Later, with the C language to be re written, including access to the database. He integrates these programs with some form literal translation devices, called PHP/FI. PHP/FI can be connected to the database, a simple dynamic web page.
In 1995 to Home Page Tools Personal (Tools PHP) began to publish the first version of Lerdorf, wrote a number of documents to introduce this program. And released the PHP1.0! In this version, provides a simple function of the visitor's message, the visitor counter and so on. More and more websites are using PHP in the future, and it is strongly required to add some features. Such as loop and array variables, and so on; after the new members to join the ranks of the development, rasmus Lerdorf in June 1995 8 will PHP/FI publicly released, hope can through the community to accelerate the development process and find the mistake. The release of version named 2 for PHP, PHP have been some prototype, like Perl like variable naming, form processing capabilities, and embedded to HTML execution ability. Procedural syntax is similar to Perl, there are more restrictions, but more simple, more flexible. PHP/FI added support for MySQL, and established the status of PHP in dynamic web development. By the end of 1996, there are 15000 sites using PHP/FI.
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In 1997, worked at IIT Technion's two Israeli program designers: Suraski Zeev and Gutmans Andi, rewriting the PHP parser, becoming the foundation of PHP 3. PHP at this time also known as PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor. After several months of testing, the development team released the PHP/FI 2 in November 1997. Then began PHP 3 open beta, and finally in June 1998 officially released PHP 3. Zeev Suraski and andI Gutmans in PHP 3 launch started to rewrite the PHP core, the released in 1999 parser called Zend engine. They also in Israel Ramat Gan established Zend technologies to manage the PHP development.
In May 22, 2000, Engine Zend 1 based on the official release of PHP 4, in July 13, 2004 the release of PHP 5, PHP 5 is the use of the second generation of Engine Zend. PHP contains many new features, such as enhanced object-oriented features, the introduction of PDO (Data Objects PHP, an extension of the database library), as well as many of the enhancements. PHP 4 will not continue
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Update to encourage users to transfer to PHP 5.
2008 PHP 5 became the only PHP in the development of the PHP version. Future PHP 5.3 will join static binding Late and some other features to strengthen. PHP 6 development is also in the process, the main improvements have removed register_globals, quotes magic and mode Safe function.
The latest stable version of PHP: 5.4.30 (2013.6.26)
The official version of the latest release of PHP: 5.5.14 (2014.6.24)
PHP latest test version: RC2 5.6.0 (2014.6.03)
June 20, 2013, PHP development team proud to announce the launch of 5.5.0 PHP. This version contains a large number of new features and bug fixes. A point that requires special attention is no longer supported by the XP Windows and 2003 systems.
In October 16, 2014, the PHP development team announced the availability of 5.6.2 PHP. Four security related bugs are fixed in this version, including the repair of cve-2014-3668, cve-2014-3669, and cve-2014-3670. All PHP 5.6 encourages users to upgrade to this version.