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

Foreign libraries with PHP bindings

Open source

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

PHP related programmer's utilities

• Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of PHP source files

Text 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.
• jEdit - Java based editor - PHP syntax highlighting built-in

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

PHP Based programs and utilities

• phpMyAdmin - MySQL administration over WWW

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