HTML is a markup language rather than a programming language. You can specify how you want text to appear on a Web page with HTML, but you can't make decisions or change the contents of the page ...

Critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in a popular WordPress plugin have been made public. The RCE bugs impact PHP Everywhere, a utility for web developers to be able to use PHP code in ...

One of the most basic reasons to use a computer-programming language is for task automation. Through a series of logical decisions, developers can use code to accomplish smaller tasks that, when ...

In June, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf made an announcement on a Usenet group. You can still read it. Today, twenty five years on, PHP is about as ubiquitous as it could possibly have become. I’d be willing to ...

Unknown attackers compromised the official PHP Git server and planted a backdoor in the source code of the programming language, potentially putting websites using the tainted code at risk of complete ...

The issue impacts several content management systems, including Typo3 and WordPress, as well as widely-used PDF generation library TCPDF. Researchers have created a proof-of-concept exploit that would ...

.NET is much more than Microsoft’s own tools and languages. The open source PeachPie brings PHP to the table. One of the more interesting things about .NET is its extensibility. It’s not just a ...

In the latest software supply chain attack, the official PHP Git repository was hacked and the code base tampered with. Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository ...

Due to the incredible growth of PHP in the last couple of years, it's now being used for tasks ranging from tiny scripts to large-scale Web applications. Some Web applications contain hundreds of ...

Instead of throwing out years of legacy code, Facebook built a new branch of the language that originally underpinned TheFacebook.com. Here’s the story behind a two-year labor of love. “Every PHP ...