Background on PHP

Background on PHP

PHP conceived in fall of 1994
PHP Version 4 in Q2 2000
PHP is open source, get the source at www.php.net/downloads.php
Development Team consists of more than 300 people

Statistics


Source: Netcraft January 2002	36,689,008 Domains queried PHP installed on 25.4% of all domains
Source: SecuritySpace.com February 2002 Apache Module Report	`1,984,899 Apache Servers surveyed 846,501 (42.65%) PHP 372,150 (18.75%) Frontpage 319,482 (16.10%) mod_ssl 294,056 (14.81%) OpenSSL 259,995 (13.10%) mod_perl 87,489 (4.41%) ApacheJServ`

Platforms (current):

UNIX (all variants)
Win32 (NT/W95/W98/W2000)
QNX
MacOS (WebTen)
OSX
OS/2
BeOS

Platforms (experimental):

OS/390
AS/400

Server Interfaces:

Apache module (UNIX,Win32)
CGI
fhttpd module
ISAPI module (IIS, Zeus)
NSAPI module (Netscape iPlanet)
Java servlet
AOLServer
Roxen module
thttpd module

Server Interfaces (Experimental):

Apache 2.0 module