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This article is about the scripting language. For other uses, see PHP (disambiguation).
PHP
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Paradigm Multi-paradigm: imperative, functional, object-oriented, procedural, reflective
Designed by Rasmus Lerdorf
Developer The PHP Development Team, Zend Technologies, PHP Foundation
First appeared June 8, 1995; 27 years ago[1][2]
Stable release
8.1.12 / 2022-10-27
Preview release
8.2.0 beta / 2022-07-21
Typing discipline Dynamic, weak, gradual[3]
Implementation language C (primarily; some components C++)
OS Unix-like, Windows, macOS, IBM i, OpenVMS
License PHP License (most of Zend engine under Zend Engine License)
Filename extensions .php,.phar,.phtml,.pht,.phps
Website www.php.net Edit this at Wikidata
Major implementations
Zend Engine, HHVM, PeachPie, Quercus, Parrot
Influenced by
Perl, HTML, C, C++, Java,[citation needed] Tcl,[2] JavaScript, Hack[4]
Influenced
Hack, JSP, ASP
PHP Programming at Wikibooks
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development.[5] It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995.[6][7] The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group.[8] PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page,[9] but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.[10]
PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter implemented as a module, a daemon or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) executable. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code which may be any type of data, such as generated HTML or binary image data would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. Various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks exist which can be employed to orchestrate or facilitate the generation of that response. Additionally, PHP can be used for many programming tasks outside the web context, such as standalone graphical applications[11] and robotic drone control.[12] PHP code can also be directly executed from the