Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

Attackers have begun exploiting two separate flaws in the PHP scripting language found in a large majority of Web sites.

PHP scripting language can be found in just about every Web site out there. So it's a big deal when an exploit is discovered that could allow attackers to steal site source code and load up a ...

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.

Scripting flaw threatens Web servers A vulnerability found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language allows attackers to crash, and in some cases control, computers over the Internet.

PHP, the venerable server-side scripting language, is famous for its use in Web development. First released in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf, it has been leveraged by the likes of WordPress and Facebook ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

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 w… ...

PHP is widely known as an interpreted language. But with PHP version 8, the language was given a Just In Time (JIT) compiler. According to PHP folks at Zend, that JIT compiler could pave the way for ...

Scripting flaw threatens Web servers A vulnerability found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language allows attackers to crash, and in some cases control, computers over the Internet.