Hot scripting language: PHP. Judging by book sales, you would think that PHP’s heyday was done, as PHP book sales dropped 25 percent from 2009 to 2010.

A handful of holes appear in different versions of a common open-source scripting language, PHP, and could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server.

Hobbs: Scripting languages are increasingly prevalent in Web applications, with PHP’s growing popularity and the rise of Ruby on Rails, while maintaining their dominance in important daily tasks ...

If PHP is your scripting language of choice when it comes to developing dynamic Web sites, you probably have grown to love its immediacy and power. An estimated ten million Web sites use at least some ...

Yet judging from many vendors' plans, scripting is down-right trendy compared to, say, Java. Long-time Java devotees IBM and Oracle have both partnered with Zend Technologies to make a PHP work ...

PHP is a scripting language used online, and Ruby is used to create interactive websites. They’re all worth learning at some point, but they aren’t the place to start.

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.

The most common programming languages on the Web include HyperText Markup Language, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Some are used in conjunction with each other ...

PHP 5 boasts a new version of the Zend engine, object orientation, enhanced XML processing and Web services support.

Developers are opting for safer languages, despite ease of use offered by scripting languages like Perl, PHP, and Ruby Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...