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 ...

If PHP is your scripting language of choice when it comes to developing dynamic Web sites, you probably have grown to love its immediacy and power. An estimated ten million Web sites use at least some ...

A flaw found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language could allow attackers to crash, and in some cases control, computers over the Internet, an open-source developer group announced ...

Cooperating with open-source Zend, Microsoft starts releasing software to let programmers build better PHP-powered Web sites that use Microsoft software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Hypertext Preprocessor or PHP is a server side scripting language used by web developers to create web applications and websites with databases and improved functionality that was installed on more ...

The PHP scripting language has received a strong endorsement from Yahoo, following news that the Internet portal giant is to begin using PHP as its standard server-side scripting language. Yahoo ...

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification — just extensive user documentation. But ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

What follows is a barometer of scripting languages — JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, R, PHP, and Java — with our best-guess forecast of which languages are rising and falling in ...