When I decided to give PHP a closer look, I wondered if PHP was a browser-only technology or if it could be used for command line scripting. It turns out that one can write operating system level ...

There is little doubt that PHP is one of the easiest languages to use to start generating dynamic Web content. PHP, in combination with Linux, Apache and MySQL is so popular, it has spawned the ...

Greenland native Rasmus Lerdorf was tired of writing the same code over and over while creating his personal home page back in 1995. So, he says, he wrote “a very simple parser” to replace tags in an ...