History of Programming Languages ​​PHP

PHP was first created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. At that time PHP named FI (Form Interpreted). At the moment it is a collection of PHP scripts used to process the form data from the web.

 Further development is Rasmus releasing the source code and named PHP / FI, at the time of the extension of PHP / FI is a Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter. With the release of this source code into open source, so many programmers who are interested to participate in developing PHP.

In November 1997, released PHP / FI 2.0. In this release the interpreter has been implemented in C. In this release also included the extension modules that enhance the ability of PHP / FI significantly.
In 1997, a company called Zend, the PHP interpreter to rewrite a cleaner, better and faster. Then in June 1998 the company released a new interpreter for PHP and inaugurate the release name into PHP 3.0.

In mid-1999, Zend released a new PHP interpreter and the release is known with PHP 4.0. PHP version PHP 4.0 is the most widely used. This version is widely used because this version can be used to build complex web applications, but still has a processing speed and stability.

In June 2004, Zend PHP 5.0 release. This version is the latest version of PHP. In this version, the core of the PHP interpreter experienced great changes. In this version also introduced a new object-oriented programming model to answer discuss the development of programming towards object-oriented programming.