This second excerpt from Advanced PHP Programming: A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5 by George Schlossnagle is reprinted with permission of Sams ...

Joel Gratcyk's son Wesley spends a few hours a week learning to code in Python, PHP, and Swift. Wesley started taking free courses when he was 7 and uses both online and library resources.

It's not a fork, but a stricter version that could leave compatibility baggage behind and add new features more easily A new dialect of PHP, code-named P++, could be developed as a stricter ...

The language’s creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, recently appeared at the DevBeat conference in San Francisco, where he gave a thumbs-up to Facebook’s HipHop source code transformer for PHP.

The venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.