PHP and Related Topics

Perl

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Family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages.

It is also an optional component of the popular LAMP technology stack for Web development, in lieu of PHP or Python.

C (programming language)

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General-purpose computer programming language.

Dennis Ritchie (right), the inventor of the C programming language, with Ken Thompson

The cover of the book The C Programming Language, first edition, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

"Hello, World!" program by Brian Kernighan (1978)

The TIOBE index graph, showing a comparison of the popularity of various programming languages

Many later languages have borrowed directly or indirectly from C, including C++, C#, Unix's C shell, D, Go, Java, JavaScript (including transpilers), Julia, Limbo, LPC, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift, Verilog and SystemVerilog (hardware description languages).

Web framework

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Software framework that is designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs.

In 1995, fully integrated server/language development environments first emerged and new web-specific languages were introduced, such as ColdFusion, PHP, and Active Server Pages.

Zend Engine

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The Zend Engine is a compiler and runtime environment for the PHP scripting language and consists of the Zend Virtual Machine, which is composed of the Zend Compiler and the Zend Executor, that compiles and executes the PHP code.

Zend (company)

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Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software company.

The company's products, which include Zend Studio, assist software developers with developing, deploying, and managing PHP-based web applications.

Web server

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Computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP or its secure variant HTTPS.

The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge server, a computer designed to be mounted in a rack mount environment. It is often used as a web server.

Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website.

Web server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites.

ADSL modem running an embedded web server serving dynamic web pages used for modem configuration.

First web proposal (1989) evaluated as "vague but exciting..."

The world's first web server, a NeXT Computer workstation with Ethernet, 1990. The case label reads: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"

Sun's Cobalt Qube 3 – a computer server appliance (2002, discontinued)

PC clients connected to a web server via Internet

PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static and dynamic content.

Directory listing dynamically generated by a web server.

Chart:
Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 2005–2021

Chart:
Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 1995–2005

The result is the local file path of the program (in this example, a PHP program):

Zeev Suraski

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Zeev Suraski (זאב סורסקי ) is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies.

Andi Gutmans

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Swiss-born Israeli programmer and entrepreneur.

Andi Gutmans helped to co-create PHP, and co-founded Zend Technologies and is a VP Engineering, Databases at Google.

Dynamic web page

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Web page whose construction is controlled by an application server processing server-side scripts.

When a request to a dynamic web page or resource is made, the application server processes the request using its server-side language.

Web pages that use server-side scripting are often created with the help of server-side languages such as PHP, Perl, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion and other languages.