php英文翻译分析和总结.pdf

毕 业 设 计（论 文）外 文 参 考 资 料 及 译 文 译文题目 : PHP Development History PHP发展史 PHP development history —from 《Programming PHP》 By: ERIC Within the last few years, PHP has grown to be the most widespread web platform in the world, operational in more than a third of the web servers across the globe. PHPs growth is not only quantitative but also qualitative. More and more companies, including Fortune companies, rely on PHP to run their business-critical applications, which creates new jobs and increases the demand for PHP developers. Version 5, due to be released in the very near future, holds an even greater promise. While the complexity of starting off with PHP remains unchangedand very low, the features offered by PHP today enable developers to reach far beyond simple HTML applications. The revised object model allows for large-scale projects to be written efficiently, using standard object-oriented methodologies. New XML support makes PHP the best language available for processing XML and, coupled with new SOAP support, an ideal platform for creating and using Web Services. Many years ago, when Rasmus Lerdorf first started developing PHP/FI. He could not have imagined that his creation would eventually lead to the development of PHP as we know it today, which is being used by millions of people. The first version of “PHP/FI, ” called Personal Homepage Tools/Form Interpreter, was a collection of Perl scripts in 1995.One of the basic features was a Perl-like language for handling form submissions, but it lacked many common useful language features, such as for loops. A rewr