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.

A handful of holes appear in different versions of a common open-source scripting language, PHP, and could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server.

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

Despite significant shortcomings, PHP is perhaps the most popular Web scripting language in the world. But despite a large collection of nails, not every tool is a hammer. So when should it be ...

Client-server applications on the World Wide Web split the computation logic between two computers, the server and the client. Generally, the client renders the user interface, validates input and ...

PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.

Microsoft says it will no longer contribute Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language from PHP version 8.0 and onwards. Microsoft engineer Dale Hirt announced last week that as of PHP ...

Look at the URL of most pages on Facebook, and you'll see a ".php" in there somewhere. That's because Facebook has leaned heavily on the PHP scripting language to develop the Web-facing parts of ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

Hot scripting language: PHP. Judging by book sales, you would think that PHP’s heyday was done, as PHP book sales dropped 25 percent from 2009 to 2010.