PHP, the venerable server-side scripting language, is famous for its use in Web development. First released in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf, it has been leveraged by the likes of WordPress and Facebook and ...

As a well rounded programmer (experience with C, C++, Java, C#, and a few others) I've always been inclined toward non-web programming, but I've decided to focus on web design/coding to get myself ...

According to a recent survey by Internet research company Netcraft, there have been some 2.1 million downloads of PHP, an open-source Internet scripting language. Netcraft said this meant that PHP was ...

A lot of server-side scripting solutions exist. PHP, which we explored a bit in recent columns, is but one of them. Though it’s similar to JavaScript, and you certainly can apply your JavaScript ...

Faster webpage loading times play a big part in user experience and SEO, with page load speed a key determining factor for Google’s algorithm. A front-end web developer must decide the best way to ...