UKNM: Re: PHP

[lee]

Well ... if you need to know so you can win big prizes then you should've

done some reseach!!


And in this case you can get lost if you think that i'm gonna tell you that:


PHP was conceived sometime in the fall of 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Early

non-released versions were used on his home page to keep track of who was

looking at his online resume. The first version used by others was available

sometime in early 1995 and was known as the Personal Home Page Tools. It

consisted of a very simplistic parser engine that only understood a few

special macros and a number of utilities that were in common use on home

pages back then. A guestbook, a counter and some other stuff. The parser was

rewritten in mid-1995 and named PHP/FI Version 2. The FI came from another

package Rasmus had written which interpreted html form data. He combined the

Personal Home Page tools scripts with the Form Interpreter and added mSQL

support and PHP/FI was born. PHP/FI grew at an amazing pace and people

started contributing code to it.


It is difficult to give any hard statistics, but it is estimated that by

late 1996 PHP/FI was in use on at least 15,000 web sites around the world.

By mid-1997 this number had grown to over 50,000. Mid-1997 also saw a change

in the development of PHP. It changed from being Rasmus' own pet project

that a handful of people had contributed to, to being a much more organized

team effort. The parser was rewritten from scratch by Zeev Suraski and Andi

Gutmans and this new parser formed the basis for PHP Version 3. A lot of the

utility code from PHP/FI was ported over to PHP3 and a lot of it was

completely rewritten.


Today (mid-2000) either PHP/FI or PHP3 ships with a number of commercial

products such as C2's StrongHold web server and RedHat Linux. A conservative

estimate based on an extrapolation from numbers provided by NetCraft would

be that PHP is in use on over 2,000,000 sites around the world. To put that

in perspective, that is more sites than run Netscape's flagship Enterprise

server on the Internet.


OK?


Lee



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