Want to learn to program using PHP? It would be tempting to pick up a PHP programming book, but you might be left with a profound feeling that you’ve learned lots of theory, without really having ...

We sit down with Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP, to find out why he hates coding, loves Etsy and is the only Latino Eskimo in California.

“I like solving problems — I don’t like programming. It’s tedious,” said the creator of PHP on stage at our DevBeat conference.

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet ...

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 ...

A senior Google database expert loves the JIT compiler, but others doubt its worth and say it could be hard to maintain.