The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

PHP‘s creator Rasmus Lerdorf did not intend to create an entirely new programming language. Over 20 years ago, the Danish software engineer was looking for a better way to fix what he described as a ...

I have been asked to learn how to do some basic GUI programming. Can anyone suggest a good place to start that will teach me the basics? I just need to be able to modify an existing GUI to add new ...

From time to time, you will find a security advisory about some major web application on security mailing lists. Most of the time, the problem is fixed easily. The errors often occur because the ...

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...

A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well ...

PHP, arguably the world's best Web scripting language, recently received a significant overhaul. Version 5 expands the object model of the language, adds support for new MySQL 4.x features and speeds ...

PHP scripting language can be found in just about every Web site out there. So it's a big deal when an exploit is discovered that could allow attackers to steal site source code and load up a target ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...