Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This guide to the 8 most popular PHP frameworks will help you decide which one is worth learning and using for web development projects. PHP is a server-side programming language that works well with ...

Builds will stop with version 8.0 and beyond, and support for PHP 7.2 will end in November. Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond.

The venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. W3Techs ...