A survey and discussion of how popular PHP, JSP, ASP, and CFM scripting languages are by counting search engine URLs.

PEAR is the standard library of PHP code for PHP4. Tutorials and documentation on PEAR can be found here.

PHP 4.0 makes its debut. The author puts PHP 4 through its paces on one of the busiest Web sites around--Linux Today--and what his benchmarking shows will amaze you: PHP 4.0 is an amazingly fast tool that can optimize any Web site.

Classified as "the most popular Apache module" by E-Soft, PHP is one of the least frequently mentioned languages amongst the XML discussion lists. PHP4 brings many enhancements to PHP's object oriented features and should therefore allow a leap forward in the XML direction which PHP3 didn't allow.

This article presents a compilation of all available PHP debuggers and caches, with benchmarks.

PHP Tunisie Magazine is a FREE monthly french magazine for PHP Professionnals. The magazine is created and maintained by PHPTunisie members.

According to Symantec AntiVirus Research Center, "PHP.Pirus is the first virus written in PHP, a server-side scripting language used for dynamic Web page generation. The virus searches for .php and .htm files and inserts code to call itself. The virus executes only on servers with PHP interpreters. This virus cannot be contracted by simply visiting an infected Web page." The Web page offers technical description and how to remove the virus.

Being a good PHP hacker isn't just about writing single line solutions to complex problems. For example, web gurus know that speed of coding is much more important than speed of code. This article looks at techniques that can help you become a better PHP hacker. It assumes that you have a basic knowledge of PHP and databases.

You may already know that PHP is fast, stable, and easy to learn, but you may not know how it got that way. In this interview, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, talks about the unlikely origins of this open-source product. Then core developers Stig Bakken, Andi Guttmans, and Zeev Suraski explain how they came to work on PHP and discuss the evolution of the language. Plus, you'll hear about the planned support for XML and MySQL and what's going on with Zend.

This article by Zend describes why PHP is gaining popularity as the enterprise solution for developing dynamic Web applications.