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

• Latest OS/2 version: PHP v5.6.12 (2015-08-10)

Versions 5.4.44 and 5.5.38 are also being kept up to date and were released on the same day as 5.6.12

Alternate version: PHP 4.3.10 for some older scripts that do not correctly work on the 5.x branch.

PHP based application frameworks

• Symfony
• Typo3 Flow

Foreign libraries with PHP bindings

• Cairo - 2D graphics library - Open source - Current
• LibcURL - Internet URL (WWW, FTP, etc) access - Open Source - Current
• Libxml2 - XML parser - Open source - Current
• Libxslt - XSLT parser - Open source - Current
• LZ4 - Compression library - Open source - Current
• Snappy - Compression lib. - Open Source - Current

PHP related programmer's utilities

• Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of PHP source files - Open source - Current.

OS/2 text & programmers editors with PHP support

• Boxer - Contributed, requires a separate download.
• Enhanced Editor - Does not come with PHP support as standard, however a number of add on packages provide some PHP support
  • EPMKWDS.PHP - Fairly modern PHP syntax highlighting file for EPM.
• FTE - Has support for syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent. - Open source - Current
• jEdit - Java based editor - PHP syntax highlighting built in - Current

Alternative implementations

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

PHP Based programs and utilities

• phpMyAdmin - MySQL administration over WWW - Open source - Current

Licence and availability

• Open source software released under the PHP License v3.01 since version 4.0, PHP 3.x versions were dual-licensed under the PHP licence and the GPL v2. 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