PHP

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was 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: PHP Group • Perforce Zend • Andi Gutmans • Rasmus Lerdorf • Zeev Suraski
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows • Unix-like operating system
Implemented in: C
Aliases: PHP programming language, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
File extensions: phar, php, php3, php4, php5, php7, phps, pht, phtml

Wikidata: Q59

Influenced: Chaos • Falcon • Ferite • Hack

Influenced by: C • C++ • Java • JavaScript • Perl • Tcl

Programming paradigms: functional programming • reflective programming • imperative programming • object-oriented programming • procedural programming

Language types: multi-paradigm programming language • procedural programming language • imperative programming language • scripting language • object-based language • interpreted language

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Hello World in PHP

<?php

echo 'Hello World';

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