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PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1995
Created by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Developed by: Andi GutmansPHP GroupRasmus LerdorfZeev SuraskiZend Technologies
Operating systems: Microsoft WindowsUnix-like operating system
Implemented in: C
Aliases: Hypertext Preprocessor, PHP programming language, php, PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, Personal Home Page
File extensions: phar, php, php3, php4, php5, php7, phps, pht, phtml

Wikidata: Q59

Influenced: ChaosFalconFeriteHack

Influenced by: CC++JavaJavaScriptPerlTcl

Programming paradigms: functional programmingimperative programmingobject-oriented programmingprocedural programmingreflective programming

Language types: imperative programming languageinterpreted languagemulti-paradigm programming languageobject-based languageprocedural programming languagescripting language

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echo 'Hello World';

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