Surprising facts about PHP Development.
                     Surprising facts about 
PHP Development
PHP
 PHP was originally created as 
‘Personal Home Page’ and only later 
in 1995 was launched as Hypertext 
preprocessor.
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Not intended
 The founder Rasmus Lerdorf actually 
created PHP to manage his personal 
website. He was trying to create a 
Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
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Initial use
 PHP was initially used to build simple and 
dynamic websites and web applications. It 
also helped in bug reporting and to 
improve the codes.
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Further development
 In 1997, Zeev Suraski and Andi 
Gutmans rewrote the original 
software component to release the 
PHP 3, which became widely popular.
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Zend Engine
 With the base of PHP 3, the two 
developers later powered the Zend 
Engine, which helped PHP to be 
popular around the world.
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Mascot
 PHP has its own mascot, the big blue 
elephant. It has been strategically 
modified to ‘elePHPant’.
5 million developers
 Although the exact number of developers 
is unknown, Zend estimated that there 
may be about 5 million developers 
contributing to PHP.
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Usage
 PHP is used by over 244 million 
websites, which constitutes a huge 
chunk of global website market.
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Big brands
 Popular websites like Facebook, Flickr, 
Yahoo, Friendster, Twitter, Wikipedia use 
PHP to run their websites. It is one of the 
most popular languages today.
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