HISTORY OF PHP
Image sOurce:www.foundationphp.com
PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 and it was written in C programming language. He created PHP so that he can trace the people who visited his online CV. To make things easier for him to debug his program, he made it into an open source. Then, on June 8, 1995, Lerdorf combined PHP and his own Form Interpreter because of the growing needs of web pages. It was now called as PHP/FI, but generally known as PHP 2.0. Then, in 1997, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski rebuilt the main parser. Before Andi Gutmans and Zeec Suraski rewrote the PHP’s core, PHP was widely known as “Personal Homepage”.
PHP was widely known as “Personal Homepage” until Andi Gutsman and Zeev Suraski Rebuit the main parser of PHP. And so, the acronym PHP was formally changed to PERL Hypertext Preprocessor. Then PHP 3 was released in 1998.
PHP 4 was released in May 2000 with a new core known as the Zend Engine 1.0. In July 2004, PHP 5 was released with the updated Zend Engine 2.0 and new features. PHP 6 was released in October, 20006.
