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History of PHP: PHP Tools, FI, Construction Kit, and PHP/FI

PHP started in 1994 as a set of CGI scripts called PHP Tools created by Rasmus Lerdorf to track visits to his online resume. Over time, more functionality was added and it was rewritten to provide a framework for simple dynamic web apps. In 1995, Rasmus released the source code publicly and renamed it to PHP/FI, adding variables, form interpretation, and HTML tags. It continued evolving through the 1990s with rewrites that added databases, functions, and more features until becoming the programming language we use today.

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History of PHP: PHP Tools, FI, Construction Kit, and PHP/FI

PHP started in 1994 as a set of CGI scripts called PHP Tools created by Rasmus Lerdorf to track visits to his online resume. Over time, more functionality was added and it was rewritten to provide a framework for simple dynamic web apps. In 1995, Rasmus released the source code publicly and renamed it to PHP/FI, adding variables, form interpretation, and HTML tags. It continued evolving through the 1990s with rewrites that added databases, functions, and more features until becoming the programming language we use today.

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History of PHP

PHP Tools, FI, Construction Kit, and PHP/FI


PHP as it's known today is actually the successor to a product named PHP/FI. Created
in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language.
Originally used for tracking visits to his online resume, he named the suite of scripts
"Personal Home Page Tools," more frequently referenced as "PHP Tools." Over time,
more functionality was desired, and Rasmus rewrote PHP Tools, producing a much
larger and richer implementation. This new model was capable of database interaction
and more, providing a framework upon which users could develop simple dynamic web
applications such as guest books. In June of 1995, Rasmus the source code for PHP
Tools to the public, which allowed developers to use it as they saw fit. This also
permitted - and encouraged - users to provide fixes for bugs in the code, and to
generally improve upon it.
In September of that year, Rasmus expanded upon PHP and - for a short time - actually
dropped the PHP name. Now referring to the tools as FI (short for "Forms Interpreter"),
the new implementation included some of the basic functionality of PHP as we know it
today. It had Perl-like variables, automatic interpretation of form variables, and HTML
embedded syntax. The syntax itself was similar to that of Perl, albeit much more limited,
simple, and somewhat inconsistent. In fact, to embed the code into an HTML file,
developers had to use HTML comments. Though this method was not entirely wellreceived, FI continued to enjoy growth and acceptance as a CGI tool --- but still not
quite as a language. However, this began to change the following month; in October,

1995, Rasmus released a complete rewrite of the code. Bringing back the PHP name, it
was now (briefly) named "Personal Home Page Construction Kit," and was the first
release to boast what was, at the time, considered an advanced scripting interface. The
language was deliberately designed to resemble C in structure, making it an easy
adoption for developers familiar with C, Perl, and similar languages. Having been thus
far limited to UNIX and POSIX-compliant systems, the potential for a Windows NT
implementation was being explored.
The code got another complete makeover, and in April of 1996, combining the names of
past releases, Rasmus introduced PHP/FI. This second-generation implementation
began to truly evolve PHP from a suite of tools into a programming language in its own
right. It included built-in support for DBM, m SQL, and Postgres95 databases, cookies,
user-defined function support, and much more. That June, PHP/FI was given a version
2.0 status. An interesting fact about this, however, is that there was only one single full
version of PHP 2.0. When it finally graduated from beta status in November, 1997, the
underlying parsing engine was already being entirely rewritten.
Though it lived a short development life, it continued to enjoy a growing popularity in
still-young world of web development. In 1997 and 1998, PHP/FI had a cult of several
thousand users around the world. A Net craft survey as of May, 1998, indicated that
nearly 60,000 domains reported having headers containing "PHP", indicating that the
host server did indeed have it installed. This number equated to approximately 1% of all
domains on the Internet at the time. Despite these impressive figures, the maturation of
PHP/FI was doomed to limitations; while there were several minor contributors, it was
still primarily developed by an individual.

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