Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Ten Stunning Facts About PHP

Now-a-days, PHP is an extraordinary language as all big companies use PHP to develop their business site. It is very easy to learn as it is an open source programming language. Here, check some facts about PHP which you will find very interesting.

Ten Stunning Facts About PHP

1). The PHP mascot was developed by Vincent Pontier.

2). In 1994, PHP was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf.

3). At the starting point, PHP stood for personal home page but at present, it is the recursive backronym of Hypertext preprocessor.

4). The best part is, PHP can be run on almost every operating system as well as a platform, and it is mostly influenced by C, c++, JAVA, Perl, Tcl.

5). As per said by  Rasmus Lerdorf, he never planned to make a programming language. He wants to keep adding the next logical step and in a very short period of time, a developer group formed. Later, doing some beta testing, they launched the first official PHP version in 1997.

6). There are no standards as well as written specifications for PHP.

7). As per the recent survey, more than 244 million websites and 2 million web servers use PHP. Obviously, It is a great achievement.

8). Some well-known websites, including Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, WordPress, Flickr, Yahoo and many more run on the PHP.

9). PHP 5 was released in 2004, which is powered by Zend Engine II.

10). In the early stage of 2014, There was some discussion about the following version of PHP was to be called PHP 6 or only PHP.

Reference :- http://creativica.in/article/web-designing/10-awesome-facts-about-php

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