Recently, version 2.0 of the PHP Development Tools (PDT) project was officially released. PDT is one of the more popular projects at eclipse.org, with over 1 million unique downloads to date. I caught ...

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 ...

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, the venerable server-side scripting language, is famous for its use in Web development. First released in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf, it has been leveraged by the likes of WordPress and Facebook and ...

The programming language PHP powers more than 40% of websites, but a new survey suggests that it's an undervalued tech skill. A recent poll of more than 80,000 developers by Stack Overflow found that ...

SAN JOSE — The rumors were true. Five million PHP developers will now be able to design and build mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. New: watch a PHP developer create a ...

How do the old guard and the upstart darling of the server-side web stack up against each other? Let’s compare It’s a classic Hollywood plot: the battle between two old friends who went separate ways.

A Dutch web developer has created a rootkit that hides inside a PHP module and can be used to take over web servers via a rarely used attack vector: Apache modules. According to a classic definition ...