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PHP
Latestv8.5.7Updated Jun 4, 2026
Overview
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Read moreHow it works
php
<?php
echo "Hello, World!";The flow
Step by step, from source to running.
- 1Browser requests a .php URL
- 2Web server hands it to PHP-FPM
- 3PHP interprets & runs the script
- 4HTML returned to the browser