subject: Explore How Immense Development Tool PHP Is [print this page] Explore How Immense Development Tool PHP Is
With the introduction of a mere scripting language in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, a Danish programmer, for maintaining his personal data in the form of a resume and recording numbers of traffic to it, the journey of the PHP began finally in 1995. Then the objective was very minimal. Gradually, its potentialities have got extracted by Lerdorf's successors, and, therefore, it has become so gigantic in all substances and fronts in the ensuing years.
This scripting language is laid into the HTML source document of a website. Then web servers do the next task of interpretation with a PHP processor module for generating web page document. It is able to operate independently for graphic applications.
Developers can use this language on most web servers and on almost all operating systems and interfaces without any charges. It is free software that is released under PHP laws. One will be surprised to know that PHP gets installed on more than twenty million websites and one million web servers.
Throughout almost a decade, PHP has supported PDF document simulation immensely. PHP developers have been using it on sheer commercial purposes. Anyway, developers have found unfathomable capabilities in PHP since its initial stage. Hence, developers have kept themselves engaged into further improvement of the language.
Only in 1997, PHP got a fresh development by two Israeli developers named Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. They rewrote the Parser' and developed the ground for PHP 3. Thereafter, they started to work on further development of the language and became successful in 1999 by developing Zend Engine. Thus, the development endeavor was going on while the version of PHP 5 showed the stability for the users, and PHP 5.3 put the development jobs in good order by adding late static binding' into the scripting language.
Fresh development work was underway for the PHP 5 version and the developers got success. They thought of its release by naming it as PHP 6 with innumerable significant changes. But for some intrinsic technical questions over Unicode support that was being delayed over for an unexpected period of time, its official launch was put off and the task was passed on to other subordinate developers.
One should know that PHP at its present stage does not enjoy endemic support for Unicode or multi-byte strings. Because, its development is still in progress for a next generation version and it is expected that when it will get a full-grown development, it will be able to allow strings and class and contain non-ASCII characters. Presently, for MS Windows, PHP 5.3.0 is available, though purely on experimental basis.
