PHP development began in 1994 when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote several Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs in C, which he used to maintain his personal homepage. He extended them to work with web forms and to communicate with databases and called this implementation "Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter" or PHP/FI ( PHP 1 and 2: 1995 to 1997 ).
Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Afterward, public testing of PHP 3 began, and the official launch came in June 1998. ( PHP 3 and 4: 1998 to 2000 )
| Version | Release Date |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | 8 June 1995 |
| 2.0 | 1 November 1997 |
| 3.0 | 6 June 1998 |
| 4.0 | 22 May 2000 |
| 5.0 | 13 July 2004 |
| 6.x | cancel |
| 7 | 3 December 2015 |
| 7.3 | 6 December 2018 |
| 7.4 | 28 November 2019(current version) |
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