Microsoft says it will no longer contribute Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language from PHP version 8.0 and onwards. Microsoft engineer Dale Hirt announced last week that as of PHP ...

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.

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 most common programming languages on the Web include HyperText Markup Language, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Some are used in conjunction with each other w ...

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification — just extensive user documentation.

The PHP project kicked off in 1995 and would eventually become a server-side scripting language and general-purpose programming language used by tech giants like Facebook, Yahoo, and Etsy.

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 ...

Software firms are recruiting full-stack developers with strong PHP programming skills, while projects using Drupal, a content management framework written in PHP, also call for it.

The new language was developed for use with the internal Facebook HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) platform, which helps the company's Web site serve more than 1 billion users. HVVM is described as a ...