History of PHP

What is PHP

PHP First discovered in 1995 by a Software Developer named Rasmus Lerdrof. The initial idea of ​​PHP is when it Radmus want to know the number visitors who read his online resume. The newly developed script can do two jobs, namely record visitor information, and displays the number visitors of a website.

And until now, both tasks remain popularly used by web world today. Then, from there a lot of people on the mailing list Rasmus Lerdrof discuss artificial script, until finally rasmus start making a tool / script, called Personal Home Page (PHP). PHP needs a versatile tool makes Lerdorf continue to develop PHP to be a language of its own that might convert data fed through HTML Form into a variable, which can be utilized by other systems.

To make it happen, finally Lerdrof try to develop PHP using C language instead of using Perl. In 1997, PHP version 2.0 was released, with the name Personal Home Page Form Interpreter (PHP-FI). PHP is more popular, and increasingly in demand by web programmers the world. Rasmus Lerdrof really make PHP is very popular, and a lot of Developer Team is joined by Lerdrof to develop PHP to be like now, until finally released version 3 of its flights, in June 1998, and recorded more than 50,000 programmers use PHP to create websites dynamic.

Development for the development continues, hundreds of functions are added as a feature of the PHP language, and in awaal 1999, Netcraft noted, found 1,000,000 sites in the world have been using PHP. This proves that the PHP is the most popular language used by the world of web development. This matter Rasmus surprised the developer including his own, and certainly very outside the alleged author. Then Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutsman as the core developer (programmer core) attempts to rewrite the PHP Parser, and integrated with the Zend scripting engine, and change the way the groove
PHP operation.

And all of these new features in the release of the PHP 4. July 13, 2004, the evolution of PHP, PHP has undergone a lot of improvements in all sides, and fair if Netcraft announced PHP as the popular web language in the world, because it was recorded 19 million domains have been using PHP as server side scriptingnya. PHP currently has support XML and Web Services, Supports SQLite. Recorded more than 19 million domains have been using PHP as server scriptingnya. Truly PHP is very surprising. Which makes PHP HTML is different from the process of PHP itself.

HTML is a static language that if we want to change the content / contents then
to do his first time was, opened its file in advance, then add the contents into the file. Different thing with PHP. For you ever using a CMS such as wordpress or joomla built with PHP course, when it will add the content into the website, you live in into the admin page, then select the new article to create a page / content new. That is this case, a user does not deal directly with the script. So that even a beginner can use such an application.