History and Development of PHP

History of  PHP

In 1995 a Software Developer named Rasmus Lerdrofmempunyai an idea to know the number of visitors who read their online resume. The newly developed scripts can do two jobs, which record visitor information, and displays the number of visitors of a website. From the initial idea Rasmus is a lot of people are discussing the script, until Rasmus started making a tool / script, called Personal Home Page (PHP). PHP needs a versatile tool that makes Lerdorf continue to develop PHP to be a separate language that may be able to convert data in HTML Form to be fed through a variable, which can be used by other systems. To make it happen, eventually Lerdrof trying to develop PHP using C language instead of using Perl. In 1997, the PHP version 2.0 was released with the name of the Form Interpreter Personal Home Page (PHP-FI). PHP is more popular, and the demand by the world web programmer. Rasmus Lerdrof really makes PHP extremely popular, and many join the Team Developer with PHPhingga Lerdrof to develop into what it is, until finally released its 3rd version, in June 1998, and recorded more than 50,000 programmers use PHP in making website dynamic. Development after development continues, hundreds of functions added as a feature of the PHP language, and in awaal 1999, netcraft noted, found one million websites in the world have been using PHP. This proves that PHP is the language used by the world's most popular web development. This surprised the developer including Rasmus himself, and of course the author is very beyond expectations. Then Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutsman as core developers (core programmer) tried to rewrite the PHP parser, and integrated with the Zend scripting engine, and change the flow of the PHP operation. And all the new features in the release of PHP 4. On July 13, 2004, Netcraft announced as a web language PHP popular in the world, because it was carrying 19 million domains use PHP as server side scriptingnya. At the time this article was written last release PHP is a PHP 5.