History of PHP

PHP was first invented by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. Originally, PHP stands for Personal Home Page (Personal Site) and used to

record the number and to find out who his visitors on the homepage. Rasmus Lerdorf is one of the supporters of open source.Oleh therefore, he issued a Personal Home Page Tool version 1.0 for free. By removing the Personal Home Page Tools versions 1.0 to open source, so many programmers who are interested to participate in developing PHP.

In November 1997, released PHP 2.0. In this release, the PHP interpreter has been implemented in C program In this release also included the extension modules significantly enhance the ability of PHP.

In 1997, a company called Zend PHP interpreter to rewrite a cleaner, better, and faster. Then in June 1998, the company released a new interpreter for PHP and the formalizing such as the release of PHP 3.0 and PHP acronym was changed to recurring acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessing.

In mid-1999, Zend released a new PHP interpreter and release is known with PHP 4.0. PHP version PHP 4.0 is the most widely used at the beginning of the 21st century. This version is widely used due to its ability to build complex web applications but still has the speed and stability.

In June 2004, Zend PHP 5.0 release. In this version, the core of the PHP interpreter underwent major changes. This version also includes object-oriented programming model into the PHP programming language to respond to developments in the direction of object-oriented paradigm.

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