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ZDNet UK: PHP Tools Come to the UK

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 14, 2002

“PHP, a server-side scripting language that supports
applications in Web pages, is now the leading Web scripting
language, according to Wick Hill. The company is now distributing
commercial tools from Zend for UK developers working with the
language.

“‘In the next six months, we will see a recognition of how much
critical corporate IT is based on PHP,’ said Ian Kilpatrick,
managing director of the Wick Hill Group. ‘It is absolutely
endemic.’

“Visible to end users in Web pages which end in the .php
extension, PHP started life as an extension to the Perl script
language, called Personal Home Page. It has gained functions and is
now used on many commercial sites…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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