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 ...

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 ...

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.

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

PHP, short for Personal Home Page when initially released in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf, now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Version 8.5 is a major release that brings with it a handful of useful ...

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...

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. W3Techs ...