First created in 1993 to enhance the webpage of programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP didn’t originate as a new programming language and as such it developed organically.

Instead of throwing out years of legacy code, Facebook built a new branch of the language that originally underpinned TheFacebook.com. Here's the story behind a two-year labor of love.

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 ...

Another long-term design goal — more implied by the language’s construction than explicitly stated by Facebook — is making Hack safer with fewer inherent vulnerabilities than PHP.

Management apparently does not understand that ramping up in a new language/framework will take some time; if for no other reason to learn the syntax and language specific features.

A senior Google database expert loves the JIT compiler, but others doubt its worth and say it could be hard to maintain.

Basically, VW Phpunit is an extension for PHPUnit, a popular code debugging tool. PHP itself is an immensely popular programming language — most of Facebook's code is written in PHP, for example.

If PHP is your scripting language of choice when it comes to developing dynamic Web sites, you probably have grown to love its immediacy and power. An estimated ten million Web sites use at least some ...

Hi All, I am a novice PHP programmer but I set up Limesurvey for a school survey (my wife's PhD dissertation). Her users are teenagers and some of them are clicking on images embedded in the ...

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 ...