PHP
The server-side scripting language of WordPress and Laravel, still running much of the web. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- The PHP Foundation
- Created by
- Rasmus Lerdorf
- First release
- 1995
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.php.net
- Paradigms
- Object-oriented, Procedural, Functional
- Typing
- Gradual
- Type strength
- Weak
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Reference counted
- Runs as
- Bytecode on a virtual machine
- Main implementation
- Zend Engine
- Concurrency
- A process per request, fibers
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- Composer
- Used for
- Back end, Web front end
- Specification
- None, the Zend Engine is the reference