In 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg sat down to create the site that needs no introduction, he chose PHP. Moving forward the code grew and it is currently one of the biggest websites the world has ever seen ...

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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 ...

Rasmus Lerdorf also discusses language's security status, coming upgrades, and importance of getting out of the coder echo chamber PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is dominant in the realm of server-side ...

In June, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf made an announcement on a Usenet group. You can still read it. Today, twenty five years on, PHP is about as ubiquitous as it could possibly have become. I’d be willing to ...

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Don’t fret if you’re a developer with an Apache web server and the goal is to code an HTML5 and ...