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by Alec Muffett

PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile # one for @glynwintle HT @jimfinnis

A certain kind of developer loves to hate on PHP. They are really going to hate where PHP’s custodians are taking it next.

PHP was created by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. In 1997, Israeli programmers Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski rewrote the parser, creating the base for PHP 3. By 1999, they had built the Zend Engine, which is still the interpreter for PHP.

Gutmans and Suraski continued their partnership with Zend Technologies, a commercial entity that creates add-on products and services for PHP developers, particularly developers in the enterprise.

Today, after multiple massive iterations to the codebase, 35 percent of web traffic is handled by PHP, says Gutmans. Wikipedia says 75 percent of websites use PHP. Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo, and Photobucket are all built in PHP. WordPress, the most popular blogging platform in the world, runs on PHP and probably accounts for half of that 35 percent. Most of the other major content management systems, such as Drupal and Joomla, are also built in PHP.

via Exclusive: PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile | VentureBeat.

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2 responses to “PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile # one for @glynwintle HT @jimfinnis”

  1. Dave Walker

    Mmm. I know a few PHP-haters, whose view is that PHP – and especially, the way people build things with it – is a whopping security hole. More than one pentester I’ve chatted with, reckons that seeing a URL with .php in it always makes his day, as he’s not failed to force unauthorised behaviour out of a PHP-based environment, yet.

    As with many other technologies with such issues, I reckon some of these issues can be mitigated with use of other technologies to wrap the PHP interpreter up into a carefully constrained environment. If PHP is coming to mobile, then iOS, certainly, has a sound set of PHP-wrapping capabilities. It’s another “keep your eyes open” thing.

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    1. alecm

      Dave, what’s the last language you learned?

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