widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php
by Rasmus Lerdorf (1996) PHP FI Evolved to PHP/FI, used by 1% of all domains in the internet (1997 - 1998) PHP 3 - 4 Rewrited by Rasmus, Andi, & Zeev as Hypertext Preprocessor. Create Zend Engine for PHP 4 (98 - 99) PHP 5.* Released in 2004 using zend engine 2.0. Introduced PEAR, PECL, Documentation PHP 7.* End of 2015, update performance, reduce memory usage, etc
• Functional and OOP support • Huge Community • Great Documentation & Learning Resources • A multitude of pluggable frameworks • Widely used in the world