Curated list of PHP books for beginners and experts in 2025. Covers foundational skills, PHP 8 features, MySQL, and web development. Hands-on examples and modern best practices to accelerate learning.

The PHP History Project collects, preserves, and shares the stories of the PHP programming language and its community. We welcome all in helping us pursue this mission! This project adheres to a code ...

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 PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...

We sit down with Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the programming language PHP, to find out why he hates coding, loves Etsy and is the only Latino Eskimo in California. “I find programming boring and ...

The first release candidate for the upcoming version 8.4 of the PHP programming language is now available. It offers insights into the upcoming new functions and serves as a test version before the ...

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 ...

The PHP developer community is currently discussing a comprehensive license change. The aim is to replace the PHP and Zend licenses used to date with the standardized Modified BSD License. The ...

Builds will stop with version 8.0 and beyond, and support for PHP 7.2 will end in November. Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond.