Brief History
PHP is a continuation of an old project named PHP/FI, created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. PHP was initially setup as a basic set of Perl scripts for tracking accesses to his online resume. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. As more functionality was required, Rasmus wrote a much larger C implementation, which was able to communicate with databases, and enabled users to develop simple dynamic Web applications. Rasmus chose to release the source code for PHP/FI for everybody to see, so that anybody can use it, as well as fix bugs in it and improve the code.
-PHP --> Personal Home Page, then (recent day) PHP Hypertext Processor
-Release Dates: PHP/FI (1995) - PHP/FI 2 (1997) – PHP 3./4 (1998) – PHP 5 (July 2004)
-Present Day
-PHP is used, usually on a web server as a way to communicate with a database and/or process information (such as calculations). PHP is usually found in combination with (X)HTML/CSS.
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