“PHP, a little-known open-source scripting language, is becoming
dominant on Web sites, according to Netcraft.com, the U.K. surveyor
of the Web. And now Sun Microsystems has teamed up with a PHP
toolmaker, Zend Technologies Ltd. Netcraft says PHP is found on 52%
of the 14.5 million Apache-based Web sites that it inspected,
compared with 19.4% using Perl, another open-source language. PHP
and Perl are used to get disparate parts of a site to work
together. PHP is used particularly in building dynamic pages that
are produced in response to specific requests from a visitor, says
Shane Caraveo, senior developer with ActiveState, a maker of tools
for open-source and Microsoft scripts and a division of anti-spam
software firm Sophos plc…”