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PHP Facts

We have compiled some fun and interesting facts about PHP to help you understand a bit more about the language

  • Developed in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf to power his Personal Homepage - hence the abbreviation PHP.
  • When The PHP Group took over, they changed the abbreviation to PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
  • PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.
  • We are currently on Version 5 of PHP which was released in 2004. Version 6 will be released soon.
  • It can run on Linux, Windows and MacOS X.
  • Well known sites using PHP include Facebook, Digg, Wikipedia, Yahoo and Flickr.
  • Based on CGI, which is based on Perl which is based on C!.
  • Approaching it's 15th birthday in 2010.

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