PHP support had been a long time coming, since PHP has been a popular programming language for GitHub hosted projects for years, ranking third and fourth in recent years.

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.

The server for the web-application scripting language was compromised on Sunday. The PHP project on Sunday announced that attackers were able to gain access to its main Git server, uploading two ...

PHP.net hacked, code backdoored The commits were made to the php-src repo under the account names of two well-known PHP developers, Rasmus Lerdorf and Nikita Popov.