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Introduction To PHP: John Ryan B. Lorca Instructor I

PHP was initially created in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf as a set of PERL scripts to track access to his online resume. It was later developed into a full-featured scripting language called PHP/FI with added features like variables, HTML syntax, and database connectivity. PHP grew in popularity and by 1998 version 3.0 added object-oriented capabilities and a more consistent syntax. It is now widely used due to its portability, stability, low server requirements and strong database integration.

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Introduction To PHP: John Ryan B. Lorca Instructor I

PHP was initially created in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf as a set of PERL scripts to track access to his online resume. It was later developed into a full-featured scripting language called PHP/FI with added features like variables, HTML syntax, and database connectivity. PHP grew in popularity and by 1998 version 3.0 added object-oriented capabilities and a more consistent syntax. It is now widely used due to its portability, stability, low server requirements and strong database integration.

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Introduction to PHP

John Ryan B. Lorca Instructor I

Introduction to PHP: History


1995: PHP Tools
Personal Home Page Tools Developed by Rasmus Lerdof Initially created as a set of PERL scripts to track accesses to his online rsum Relatively inconsistent syntax Lerdof chose to publicly release the source code

Introduction to PHP: History


1995: PHP/FI 1.0
Personal Home Page/Form Interpreter Database connectivity was added implementing it in C language Features
Variables HTML embedded syntax Simple PL constructs

Introduction to PHP: History


1997: PHP/FI 2.0
Approximately 50,000 pages (1% of the internet) report usage Spent most of its life in BETA

Introduction to PHP: History


1998: PHP 3.0
Recursive acronym
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

First version to resemble modern PHP created by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski with help from Lerdof Object-Oriented and very consistent syntax Hundreds of thousands of pages (10% of the internet) report usage
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Introduction to PHP: History


1999: PHP 4.0
New Zend Engine at the core
Named after Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans Handled third-party databases more efficiently

Improved portability with a wider variety of server compatibility Provides more secure transfers of information Hundreds of thousands of users Several millions of pages (70% of the internet) report usage
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Introduction to PHP: History


2004: PHP 5.0
Had several pre-releases Zend Engine 2.0 Dozens of new features

Introduction to PHP: Advantages


Open-source, freely available, very portable Uses relatively little processor power PHP apps are very stable and dont depend on the browses; PHP is not server-platform dependent The browser doesnt know the HTML was created by PHP PHP has excellent database connectivity to all database servers PHP has partial support for Object-Oriented features

Introduction to PHP: Advantages


PHP has C++, Perl, JavaScript-like syntax features PHP has Zend Optimizer which speeds up performance PHP runs on all Linux, Unix, Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Server 2003/Vista and is more powerful than ASP, JSP, and others

Introduction to PHP: Disadvantages


PHP is not 100% pure Object-Oriented scripting language PHP will NOT give the performance of C or C++ language

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PHP: HTML/JS Web Pages Generation

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