The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a ...

It is one of the widely used programming languages across the Web today, but PHP was created with decidedly modest ambitions, according to the creator of the language. “PHP doesn’t really blaze a ...

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification — just extensive user documentation. But ...

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...

A certain kind of developer loves to hate on PHP. They are really going to hate where PHP’s custodians are taking it next. PHP was created by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. In 1997, Israeli ...

If PHP is your scripting language of choice when it comes to developing dynamic Web sites, you probably have grown to love its immediacy and power. An estimated ten million Web sites use at least some ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...