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 Hack, ...

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

This story includes interviews with Facebook engineers Julien Verlaguet and Ed Smith. “Every PHP programmer is familiar with day-to-day tasks that can be tricky or cumbersome,” Facebook developers ...

A certain kind of developer loves to hate on PHP. They are really going to hate where PHP’s custodians are taking it next. PHP was created by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. In 1997, Israeli ...

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. This ...

PHP is one of the most popular and important programming languages. This language has its own fame. PHP is an open-source programming language with unrestricted use. You can use it the way you like.

Scripting language PHP might not be that cool to know these days, but it is very valuable if you're new to the workforce and looking for a tech job in the US, according to job search engine Indeed.

Builds will stop with version 8.0 and beyond, and support for PHP 7.2 will end in November. Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond.

It is one of the widely used programming languages across the Web today, but PHP was created with decidedly modest ambitions, according to the creator of the language. “PHP doesn’t really blaze a ...