The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

Overview Curated list of PHP books for beginners and experts in 2025.Covers foundational skills, PHP 8 features, MySQL, and web development.Hands-on examples an ...

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...

The PHP developer community is currently discussing a comprehensive license change. The aim is to replace the PHP and Zend licenses used to date with the standardized Modified BSD License. The ...

PHP‘s creator Rasmus Lerdorf did not intend to create an entirely new programming language. Over 20 years ago, the Danish software engineer was looking for a better way to fix what he described as a ...

The programming language PHP powers more than 40% of websites, but a new survey suggests that it's an undervalued tech skill. A recent poll of more than 80,000 developers by Stack Overflow found that ...

From time to time, you will find a security advisory about some major web application on security mailing lists. Most of the time, the problem is fixed easily. The errors often occur because the ...

I have been asked to learn how to do some basic GUI programming. Can anyone suggest a good place to start that will teach me the basics? I just need to be able to modify an existing GUI to add new ...