PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1995
Created by: Zeev Suraski
Designed by: Zeev Suraski
Developed by: Rasmus Lerdorf • PHP Group • Andi Gutmans • Zeev Suraski • Perforce Zend
Operating systems: Unix-like operating system • Microsoft Windows
Implemented in: C
Aliases: PHP programming language, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
File extensions: phar, php, php3, php4, php5, php7, phps, pht, phtml

Wikidata: Q59

Influenced: Chaos • Falcon • Ferite • Hack

Influenced by: C • C++ • Java • JavaScript • Perl • Tcl

Programming paradigms: imperative programming • object-oriented programming • procedural programming • functional programming • reflective programming

Language types: scripting language • procedural programming language • multi-paradigm programming language • imperative programming language • object-based language • interpreted language