PHP History
PHP language was developed to solve practical tasks. Its creator Rasmus Lerdorf wanted to know how many unique visitoprs visited his home page and wrote a simple CGI shell using Perl language.
Soon it became clear that CGI sheel has a small productivity and Rasmus re-wrote his application using C language. After that a source code was token out for other programmers to find mistakes. And some poeple was interested in and soon PHP became the self-independent project called Personal Home Page Tools (in 1995).
In the middle of 1995 new version was released named PHP/FI (Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter). This version included a set of basic instruments of present PHP language: it could process html-forms and was able to build into html code. Sytnax PHP/FI reminded with Perl but the fist one was simplier.
In the 1997 the second version of PHP/FI was released. Till that moment PHP was used by thousands of programmers with about 50000 of inernet domains.
PHP 3.0 differed from PHP/Fi and was developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. Those guys worked under e-commerce applications and PHP/FI didn’t suit their requirements. So they joined to the founder of PHP and developed new version – PHP 3.0 The main feature was a broadening of the kernel and since that moment millions of programmers found that language very flexible and powerfull.
PHP 4.0 has been released in may of 2000 and it was based on the new kernel “Zend Engine”. It supported sessions, enter buffering and many other features.
Nowadays PHP is used by millions of websites – approximately 20% of whole internet domains.
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