Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a programming language that has been around since 1994. With more than two decades of use and still going reasonably strong today, there’s no doubt that ...

PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.

Heavyweight users of PHP, the programming language that powers 78% of the web have scrambled to create the PHP Foundation, as one of its core contributors switches his focus to the low level ...

PHP is one of the most popular languages, according to Stack Overflow, Github, and RedMonk, but it came second to last in Stack Overflow's ranking of the 40 highest-paying programming languages.

Apart from PHP—which held a 72.5 percent share in 2010 and holds a 78.9 percent share as of today—only one other server-side language ever broke a 10 percent share.

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...