PHP 3.0.9 has been released!

June 6, 1999. More bug fixes, including many in the OCI8 module, and an important fix for fgets() on socket connections. Also added support for PCRE (Perl-compatible Regular Expressions library), t1lib (PostScript Type-1 fonts with GD), and mhash. For a more complete list of all of the changes, see the ChangeLog.

PHP Related Books are Available

Get ready for a wave of PHP related books to hit the shelves! We don't know exactly how many there are going to be yet, but some are already available through Amazon.com and Borders. Click here to see them all.

PHP in the News

Netcraft's April server survey results are out. They don't actually have scripting language numbers online at Netcraft, but they do a manual grep and email us this information monthly. Here is a little bar chart showing the growth of PHP usage over the past couple of months.

Zend has been announced

Zend, a new optimized engine for PHP has been announced on January 4th, 1999.
Visit the Zend Web site! Note that Zend is not a new version of PHP. Zend is the name of the engine that will be a critical component of PHP Version 4 which is still a couple of months away from being available in any form whatsoever.

What is PHP?

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at the Introductory Tutorial. Once you get beyond that have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the Links section.

So, how much does it cost?

This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license.

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