A decade of PHP
Today marks the 10th anniversary of PHP. Rasmus initially announced PHP 1.0 10 years ago today.
It is amazing how PHP has changed the web coding landscape. I remember back in the day using various combinations of shell scripts to generate HTML pages for various sites I was fiddling on for the 'semi dynamic content'. I rewrote some Novell netbasic scripts in perl for the #Cape_Town website where users had the ability to use the nickbrowser to view details about other people on that channel. The site was rewritten from scratch with a CMS, where the webteam members could post data, users could submit their own profile, and do various other bits and pieces. It was initially written using PHP3 and used Matt Robinson's file based session library which was the de-facto session management library for PHP3. The #Cape_Town website was one of my first websites developed with PHP, as it was much quicker and easier to do web development with PHP compared to perl.
Rasmus really did a great thing by inventing, sharing and nurturing PHP. While many, many people made it all happen, Rasmus (and, indirectly, Rasmus' wife Christine) is the baling wire and duct tape that held it all together.
There are numerous blog entries regarding PHP's 10th anniversary including that entry on the PHP.net homepage.
Zak sums it up better than I could:
Rasmus really did a great thing by inventing, sharing and nurturing PHP. While many, many people made it all happen, Rasmus (and, indirectly, Rasmus' wife Christine) is the baling wire and duct tape that held it all together.
- A Decade of PHP (Zak Greant)
- A Decade of PHP (Derick Rethans)
- Half a Decade of PHP (Davey Shafik)
- A decade of PHP
- 10 Jahre PHP
- John Coggeshall
- A Decade of PHP Wez Furlong
- age(PHP) = 10 years (Andrei Zmievski)
- Viva la PHP! (George Schlossnagle)