Hot scripting language: PHP. Judging by book sales, you would think that PHP’s heyday was done, as PHP book sales dropped 25 percent from 2009 to 2010.

PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.

A handful of holes appear in different versions of a common open-source scripting language, PHP, and could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server.

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.

Programming language PHP leads the way Microsoft: We're pulling the plug on Windows builds of programming language PHP Programming languages: Developers reveal what they love and loathe, and what ...

Update: The PHP Group released fixes PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 Tuesday evening, available for download here. Attackers have begun exploiting two separate flaws in the PHP scripting language found ...

Installing this 13-line patch is one of the steps security researchers suggest webmasters follow immediately to prevent attacks that exploit an unpatched vulnerability in the PHP scripting language.

The venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has partnered with Zend Technologies Ltd. in a move to let developers deploy applications written using the PHP scripting language on Sun’s Java Web server, the companies ...

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 ...