Here are some interesting facts about PHP:
- Some of the biggest sites such as Facebook are powered by PHP.
- You can use PHP in every operating system including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X.
- PHP's original name was Personal Home Page
- There are about 5 Million PHP Programmers in the world
- Lerdorf never intended to create a programming language. PHP was made to manage his personal home page
- More than 244 Million websites run PHP (January 2013). So now it is, of course, a lot more than that number.
- On May 22, 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, was released.
- PHP uses procedural programming or object oriented programming and also a mixture of them.
- PHP first appeared on June 8, 1995.
- Initially written as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) in ‘C’