| Did you know PHP was some fellow's personal script to keep track of how many people visited his resume page? That's right. Back in 1995 PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. As the script was needed to do more, Rasmus wrote a much larger C based core, which was able to communicate with databases and enabled users to develop simple dynamic Web applications. Rasmus allowed everyone to download his source code for PHP/FI so that anybody that used it, could pitch in with bugs fixes and in it and improve the code.
PHP/FI, which stood for Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter, included some of the basic functionality of PHP as we know it today. It had Perl-like variables, automatic interpretation of form variables and HTML embedded syntax. The syntax itself was similar to that of Perl, albeit much more limited, simple, and somewhat inconsistent.
By 1997, PHP/FI 2.0, the second write-up of the C implementation, had a cult of several thousand users around the world (estimated), with approximately 50,000 domains reporting as having it installed, accounting for about 1% of the domains on the Internet. While there were several people contributing bits of code to this project, it was still at large a one-man project.
PHP/FI 2.0 was officially released only in November 1997, after spending most of its life in beta releases. It was shortly afterwards succeeded by the first alphas of PHP 3.0. |
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If you have problems installing a script, the best place for answers is from the author. Failing that, you can ask on one of many PHP forums on the Internet.
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