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PHP
Paradigm
imperative, object-oriented
Appeared in
1995
Designed by
Rasmus Lerdorf
Developer
The PHP Group
Latest release
5.2.5/ 9 November 2007
Typing discipline
Dynamic, weak (duck typing)
Influenced by
C, Perl, Java, C++, Python
OS
Cross-platform
License
PHP License
Website
www.php.net
PHP is a reflective computer programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages.[1] PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Textual User Interfaces can also be created using ncurses. PHP is a recursive initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
The main implementation is produced by The PHP Group and released under the PHP License. This implementation serves to define a de facto standard for PHP, as there is no formal specification. The most recent version of PHP is 5.2.5, released on 9 November 2007. It is considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation.[2]
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you
to website ....
