PHP‘s creator Rasmus Lerdorf did not intend to create an entirely new programming language. Over 20 years ago, the Danish software engineer was looking for a better way to fix what he described ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes.

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...

Microsoft says it will no longer contribute Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language from PHP version 8.0 and onwards. Microsoft engineer Dale Hirt announced last week that as of PHP ...

PHP 5 Power Programming is an excellent book for PHP 4 developers in need of a PHP 5 introduction. It's also a good book for anyone proficient in another programming language, such as Java, Perl or ...

PhpStorm is popular among PHP developers; however, there are worthy free and paid alternatives. Learn about seven PhpStorm alternatives.

The venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.