The PHP project kicked off in 1995 and would eventually become a server-side scripting language and general-purpose programming language used by tech giants like Facebook, Yahoo, and Etsy.

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.

Builds will stop with version 8.0 and beyond, and support for PHP 7.2 will end in November. Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond.

PHP is one of the most popular languages, according to Stack Overflow, Github, and RedMonk, but it came second to last in Stack Overflow's ranking of the 40 highest-paying programming languages.

PHP scripting language can be found in just about every Web site out there. So it's a big deal when an exploit is discovered that could allow attackers to steal site source code and load up a ...

A critical vulnerability in the PHP programming language can be trivially exploited to execute malicious code on Windows devices, security researchers warned as they urged those affected to take ...

“PHP is one of the easiest and most accessible Web programming languages available,” Lockhart says. “It’s installed on a vast majority of servers (including most shared hosting plans).

Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support. Written by Matthew Broersma, Contributor Nov. 19, 2008, 11:21 p.m. PT ...

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

The venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.