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 ...

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

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 Hack, ...

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. This ...

A certain kind of developer loves to hate on PHP. They are really going to hate where PHP’s custodians are taking it next. PHP was created by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. In 1997, Israeli ...

This story includes interviews with Facebook engineers Julien Verlaguet and Ed Smith. “Every PHP programmer is familiar with day-to-day tasks that can be tricky or cumbersome,” Facebook developers ...

Builds will stop with version 8.0 and beyond, and support for PHP 7.2 will end in November. Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond.

It is one of the widely used programming languages across the Web today, but PHP was created with decidedly modest ambitions, according to the creator of the language. “PHP doesn’t really blaze a ...

A better understanding of which programming languages are in demand can help aspiring software developers land their dream job. Recruiters are now preferring candidates with strong coding skills ...