Cameron Laird's personal notes on PHP

"PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language", according to the information-packed Personal Hypertext Preprocessor (also Personal Home Page) home page. It's often used successfully by site developers who do no other programming. It's swift at run-time. It's notably straightforward to write extensions for it (including such off-beat protocols as WebDAV, SNMP and LDAP), to the extent that it supports more database management systems than any other language I know.

I introduced the LinuxWorld Online audience to the language in January 2001 in "When should you use PHP?"

"PHP Handy off the Web, Too"

Zend released a useful summary of events at the January 2000 first PHP Developers' Conference. LinuxPR did an abbreviated summary.

Rasmus and Stig presented PHP at least three times at WWW8, including a well-received hour of the Web Scripting Forum. I wrote up some of this for our June 1999 "Regular Expressions" column.

I like the press release for PHP4. It puts PHP's best foot forward.

We describe for SunWorld Online a bit of what happened at the first PHP Developers' Meeting.

[Give references for COMability, Java (Sam Ruby) scripting, MySQL stored procedures, command-line, ...]

[Explain Zend.]

[Link to history page.]

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