Thursday, March 19, 2009

PHP – Overview & PHP Today

PHP – Overview
PHP - Open source Language
1995 - PHP Development started
1997 – Focused for e-Commerce applications
1998 – Become choice for Dynamic web content and
reached several hundred thousand websites
2004 – 16 million domains
2005 – 23 million domains



PHP Today

It is now widely referred as dynamic Programming Language
Not necessary to be compiled like C, C++, instead source code is interpreted at runtime
Platform independence
PHP Application Development time – 50% of C or Java
The most recent major release of PHP was version 5.2.6 on May 1, 2008

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