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September 9, 2020
The innumerous web projects using PHP can testify that this is one of the most popular programming languages. It was the idea of Rasmus Lerdorf to develop a set of tools to simplify the process of creating dynamic web pages. Although modern PHP is a general-purpose language, it is most often used as a server-side tool to generate HTML code, which is then interpreted by a web browser.
What is PHP? It is an open-source programming language developed by enthusiastic programmers from all over the world. It has a simple syntax, somewhat similar to Java and C++. This is a constantly developing project: to date, the 7th version of the language is relevant. PHP development services are always in high demand.
Today, there are three main areas of using PHP:
PHP is so popular due to several benefits:
PHP was originally a Perl/CGI script used to process HTML templates. Over time, its creator Rasmus Lerdorf completely redesigned the interpreter, replacing Perl with the C language. In this way he managed to achieve performance improvements. In 1998, Israeli programmers introduced the third version of the language. Its main advantage was the support of additional modules that extend the capabilities of the core.
In 2000, PHP version 4 was released with a completely redesigned engine called Zend Engine. Applications written in PHP 4.0 became much faster, their security and stability increased. Besides, they introduced support for sessions, added new language constructions, and introduced output buffering.
The 6th version was considered a failure due to problems with Unicode support. In 2014, it was decided to start developing an updated version of the language called PHP 7. It was introduced in 2015. Significant changes in the engine allowed achieving significant performance gains and lower memory consumption. Control of data types, the ability to explicitly specify the type of value returned by a method, and some new language constructions were added to the language.
The future of PHP in 2020 is the release of the eighth version, scheduled for November 2020.
According to W3Tech, in June 2019, 60% of all engine sites were powered by WordPress. The share of Joomla! and Drupal is 5.1% and 3.3%, respectively. These CMS are written in PHP.
The total market share of the three most popular engines is 70%. Add to that less popular CMS written in PHP, as well as sites on frameworks, for example, Laravel or Yii2.
Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Baidu, Tumblr, Badoo, Mailchimp, Flickr are among the most famous web projects using PHP.
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