PHP‘s creator Rasmus Lerdorf did not intend to create an entirely new programming language. Over 20 years ago, the Danish software engineer was looking for a better way to fix what he described as a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. But ...

The latest release of the PHP programming language brings new features such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility and new array search functions. Version 8.4 of the PHP programming language has ...

Hack, Facebook's PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don't expect it to rival PHP anytime soon. In this month's Tiobe index of language popularity, Hack cracked the top 50 for the first time, ...