PHP

HTML processing and scripting language primarily used as a server side scripting tool, but can be used for general programming tasks especially if you are willing to use a web page as your user interface.

Versions

 * 4.3.10 (2004-12-18)


 * 5.2.17 (2012-10-02)


 * 5.3.29 (2014-10-03)


 * 5.4.44 (2015-08-10)
 * 5.4.45 (2019)


 * 5.5.38 (2015-08-10)


 * 5.6.12 (2015-08-10)

PHP based application frameworks

 * Symfony
 * Typo3 Flow

Alternative implementations

 * phype - Run PHP scripts on ECMAScript, allows you to run PHP code in a browser
 * Uniter - Another "PHP scripts on ECMAScript" tool, very active development
 * PHP.js - Runs PHP scripts on ECMAScript, oldest and most mature of the three

Programmer's utilities

 * Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of PHP source files
 * phpMyAdmin - MySQL administration

Licence

 * PHP 3.x versions were dual-licensed under the PHP licence and the GPL v2.
 * Open source software released under the PHP License v3.01 since version 4.0.
 * The supplied documentation is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence.

Author

 * Rasmus Lerdorf

Links

 * Paul Smedley's PHP ports
 * Brian J. Havard's 4.x PHP ports
 * Tutorials
 * Php tutorials - From W3Schools.com