The major Web platforms continue to be written in PHP, and if anything, their domination is growing. WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal still attract new developers, and they’re all written in PHP.

The most common programming languages on the Web include HyperText Markup Language, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Some are used in conjunction with each other w ...

Ruby is the only server-side web language that experienced much growth over the last decade—and the closest remaining "threat" to PHP, despite having only 6.5 percent the presence. Credit: w3techs ...

Social networking giant Facebook has taken another step at making the PHP Web programming language run more quickly. The company has developed a PHP Virtual Machine that it says can execute the ...

New HipHop Virtual Machine said to execute PHP up to nine times faster Social networking giant Facebook has taken another step at making the PHP Web programming language run more quickly.

Installing this 13-line patch is one of the steps security researchers suggest webmasters follow immediately to prevent attacks that exploit an unpatched vulnerability in the PHP scripting language.

1. PHP What it is: An open-source, interpretive, server-side, cross-platform, HTML scripting language, especially well-suited for Web development as it can be embedded into HTML pages.

Programming languages: Microsoft TypeScript leaps ahead of C#, PHP and C++ on GitHub New figures show Microsoft's TypeScript has rapidly become an essential programming language for web developers.