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 ...

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification — just extensive user documentation. But ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

The latest release of the PHP programming language brings new features such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility and new array search functions. Version 8.4 of the PHP programming language has ...

The first release candidate for the upcoming version 8.4 of the PHP programming language is now available. It offers insights into the upcoming new functions and serves as a test version before the ...

What follows is a barometer of scripting languages — JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, R, PHP, and Java — with our best-guess forecast of which languages are rising and falling in ...

According to a recent survey by Internet research company Netcraft, there have been some 2.1 million downloads of PHP, an open-source Internet scripting language. Netcraft said this meant that PHP was ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

The PHP scripting language has received a strong endorsement from Yahoo, following news that the Internet portal giant is to begin using PHP as its standard server-side scripting language. Yahoo ...

In this article, we will cover 16 highest-paying programming languages in USA. We will also assess the global numbers and growth trajectory of careers in programming while also looking at some ...