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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
<appendix id="history">
<title>History of PHP and related projects</title>
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simple dynamic Web applications. Rasmus chose to release
the source code for PHP/FI for everybody to see, so that
anybody can use it, as well as fix bugs in it and improve
it.
the code.
</para>
<para>
PHP/FI, which stood for Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter,
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with a solid infrastructure for lots of different databases,
protocols and APIs, PHP 3.0's extensibility features attracted
dozens of developers to join in and submit new extension
modules. Arguably, this was one the key to PHP 3.0's tremendous
modules. Arguably, this was the key to PHP 3.0's tremendous
success. Other key features introduced in PHP 3.0 were the
object oriented syntax support and the much more powerful
and consistent language syntax.
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<para>
The whole new language was released under a new name, that
removed the implication of limited personal use that the
PHP/FI 2.0 name held. It was named plain 'PHP', with the
PHP/FI 2.0 name held. It was named plain 'PHP', with the
meaning being a recursive acronym - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
</para>
<para>
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performance of complex applications, and improve the
modularity of PHP's code base. Such applications were made
possible by PHP 3.0's new features and support for a wide
variety of 3rd party databases and APIs, but PHP 3.0 was
variety of third party databases and APIs, but PHP 3.0 was
not designed to handle such complex applications efficiently.
</para>
<para>
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<sect1 id="history.php.related">
<title>History of PHP related projects</title>
<!-- Stig and Egon can do this I hope :)
<sect2 id="history.phpdoc">
<title>PHP Documentation Project</title>
<para>
<!-- Stig and Egon can do this I hope :) -->
</para>
</sect2>
-->
<sect2 id="history.pear">
<title>PEAR</title>
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</para>
</sect2>
<!-- Andrei can do this I hope :)
<sect2 id="history.phpgtk">
<title>PHP-GTK</title>
<para>
<!-- Andrei can do this I hope :) -->
</para>
</sect2>
-->
</sect1>
<sect1 id="history.php.books">
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To the best of our knowledge, the first book dedicated to
PHP was 'php- dynamische webauftritte professionell realisieren'
- a German book published in 1999, authored by Egon Schmid,
Christian Cartus and Richard Blume. The first book in English
Christian Cartus and Richard Blume. The first book in English
about PHP was published shortly afterwards, and was 'Core
PHP Programming' by Leon Atkinson. Both of these books covered
PHP 3.0.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- $Revision: 1.25 $ -->
<!-- $Revision: 1.26 $ -->
<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
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</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="intro-history">
<title>A brief history of PHP</title>
<simpara>
PHP was conceived sometime in the fall of 1994 by &link.rasmus;.
Early non-released versions were used on his home page to keep
track of who was looking at his online resume. The first version
used by others was available sometime in early 1995 and was known
as the Personal Home Page Tools. It consisted of a very
simplistic parser engine that only understood a few special macros
and a number of utilities that were in common use on home pages
back then. A guestbook, a counter and some other stuff. The
parser was rewritten in mid-1995 and named PHP/FI Version 2. The
FI came from another package Rasmus had written which interpreted
html form data. He combined the Personal Home Page tools scripts
with the Form Interpreter and added mSQL support and PHP/FI was
born. PHP/FI grew at an amazing pace and people started
contributing code to it.
</simpara>
<simpara>
It is difficult to give any hard statistics, but it is estimated
that by late 1996 PHP/FI was in use on at least 15,000 web sites
around the world. By mid-1997 this number had grown to over
50,000. Mid-1997 also saw a change in the development of PHP. It
changed from being Rasmus' own pet project that a handful of
people had contributed to, to being a much more organized team
effort. The parser was rewritten from scratch by Zeev Suraski and
Andi Gutmans and this new parser formed the basis for PHP Version
3. A lot of the utility code from PHP/FI was ported over to PHP 3
and a lot of it was completely rewritten.
</simpara>
<simpara>
The latest version (PHP 4) uses the <ulink
url="&url.zend;">Zend</ulink> scripting engine to deliver higher
performance, supports an even wider array of third-party libraries
and extensions, and runs as a native server module with all of the
popular web servers.
</simpara>
<simpara>
Today (1/2001) PHP 3 or PHP 4 now ships with a number of
commercial products such as Red Hat's Stronghold web server.
A conservative estimate based on an extrapolation from
numbers provided by <ulink url="&url.netcraft;">Netcraft</ulink>
(see also <ulink url="&url.netcraft-survey;">Netcraft Web Server
Survey</ulink>) would be that PHP is in use on over 5,100,000
sites around the world. To put that in perspective, that is
slightly more sites than run Microsoft's IIS server on the Internet
(5.03 million).
</simpara>
<!--
<figure>
<title>NetCraft Webserver Survey</title>
<graphic fileref="&url.php.stats;"/>
</figure>
-->
</sect1>
</chapter>
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