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History of PHP

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PHP originally stood for personal home page. It began in 1994 as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language by the Danish/Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf. Lerdorf initially created these Personal Home Page Tools to replace a small set of Perl scripts he had been using to maintain his personal homepage.

Father of PHP Rasmus Lerdorf

Lerdorf released PHP publicly on June 8, 1995, to accelerate bug  location and improve the code. This release was named PHP version 2 and already had the basic functionality that PHP has today.

Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers at the Technion IIT, rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language’s name to the recursive initialism  PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

On May 22, 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, was released.
On July 13, 2004, PHP 5 was released, powered by the new Zend Engine II. PHP 5 included new features such as improved support for object-oriented programming,