Understanding about PHP

 PHP is a Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP is a programming language that runs in a web-server (server side). Created by PHP and Perl unix programmer named Rasmus Lerdoft in August-September 1994. At first, Rasmus trying to create a script in his personal wesite in order to monitor anyone who has ever visited his website. At first PHP stands for Personal Home Page (personal website). Furthermore Rasmus released the source code to the public and named PHP / FI in about 1995, and was introduced to some novice programmers to reason the language used by PHP is fairly simple and easy to understand. Furthermore Rasmus rewrote PHP with C language support to increase access speed.
Starting September to October 1995, the PHP code was rewritten and combined into PHP/F1. New in late 1995 was released to the public free of charge. Why Rasmus distributed to the public free of charge? Rasmus berangapan if the PHP code is useful for him, would also be useful to other people. After all, would eventually return benefit himself.
In November 1997, released PHP / FI 2.0. In this release, the PHP interpreter has been implemented in a C program In this release also included extension modules that enhance the ability of PHP / FI significantly.

In 1997, a company called Zend PHP interpreter rewrite a cleaner, better, and faster. Then in June 1998, the company released a new interpreter for PHP and inaugurate release as PHP stands for PHP 3.0 and converted into recurring acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessing.

In mid-1999, the new Zend PHP interpreter releases and release is known as PHP 4.0. PHP 4.0 is a PHP version of the most widely used at the beginning of the 21st century. This version is widely used due to its ability to build complex web applications while maintaining the speed and stability.

In June 2004, Zend PHP 5.0 release. In this version, the core of the PHP interpreter underwent major changes. This version also includes a model of object-oriented programming in PHP programming language to address developments in the direction of the object-oriented paradigm.
To date (January 2011) PHP version 5.3.5 has been released.

It is a little review of PHP!