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What is the PHP in History !


PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language orginally designed for Web development Program. To create dynamic webpages. It is one of the first developed server side scripting languages. PHP is using on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers. PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. While PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", it is now said to stand for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", a recursive acronym.


History:-
PHP development begain in 1994 when the persons Danish / Greenlandic / Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf initially created a set of Perl scripts he called "Personal Home Page Tools" to maintain his personal homepage. The scripts performed tasks such as displaying his résumé and recording his web-page traffic. Lerdorf initially announced the release of PHP on the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Usenet discussion group on June 8, 1995.
Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers at the Technion IIT, re-wrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

Afterwards, public testing of PHP 3 begain, and the official launch came in June 1998. Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP's core, producing the Zend Engine in 1999. They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel.
In 2008 PHP 5 became the only stable version under development. Late static binding had been missing from PHP and was added in version 5.3.
PHP is free software released under the PHP License, which insists that


Syntax:-
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>PHP Test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <?php
  echo 'Hello World';
  /* echo("Hello World"); works as well,
  although echo is not a function, but a
  language construct. In some cases, such
  as when multiple parameters are passed
  to echo, parameters cannot be enclosed
  in parentheses. */
  ?>
  </body>
</html>


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