What is PHP and Evolution of PHP?

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  • PHP is one of the easiest server-side scripting languages ruling IT since 1994.
  • PHP is widely-used open source server side scripting language mainly used for web development.
  • PHP is  one of the most powerful tool for creating dynamic and interactive webpages in web-developing.

Evolution of PHP:

PHP/F1-1995:

PHP 1.0 was introduced by Rasmus Lerdorf. Initially PHP is acronym of Personal Home Page and also known for Form Interpreter
  • PHP 1.0 Released with the main feature of Form Handling


PHP/F12-1997:

PHP 2.0 comes with the little modification to handle form Entries

Main features are
  • Data Conversion and
  • Form Data export.

PHP 3-1998:

In 1998 PHP language was modified by Zeev  Suraski and AndiGutmans and Changed PHP to Hypertext Preprocessor

Main Features are 

  • PHP core and Parser are Rewritten meanwhile ZendEngine is incorporated.


PHP 4-2000:

PHP versions are released with the lightning speed with KeyFeatures at the right time what a web developer wants

  • PHP 4.0 released with the feature of supporting Enterprise-Oriented Applications


Main features are.
  • Object-Oriented Support,
  • External Handling,
  • Security and
  • Regular Expressions Handling


PHP 5.0 -2004:

PHP 5.0 brings a stabilized and well-formed PHP language with many key features like
  • Improved Object Model,
  • PDO Support,
  • Exception Handling,
  • XML Support



PHP 7.0-2016

The Present Running PHP version came up with many features.

Main features are 
  • PHP 7.0 is twice as fast as PHP 5.6
  • Reduced Memory Usage
  • Abstract Syntax Tree
  • Complete and Consistent 64-Bit Support
  • Anonymous Classes
  • Secure Random Number Generator
  • Most of the Fatal errors in php converted to Exceptions
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