PHP 5.3.1

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (225 votes)

(November 19, 2009)

Unix, Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 24,684 downloads

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. It is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

  • Publisher

    PHP Development Team

  • Homepage

    PHP

  • Latest Changes

    - Added "max_file_uploads" INI directive, which can be set to limit the number of file uploads per-request to 20 by default, to prevent possible DOS via temporary file exhaustion

    - Added missing sanity checks around exif processing

    - Fixed a safe_mode bypass in tempnam()

    - Fixed a open_basedir bypass in posix_mkfifo()

    - Fixed failing safe_mode_include_dir

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    AntiochMedia

    Reviewing 5.3.0 Alpha 1 (Aug 1, 2008)

    UniversityofKentucky: The following PHP based app is free and uses FPDF. It will directly convert an HTML page to PDF which is extremely useful and it DOES do a very very good job:

    http://www.tufat.com/s_html2ps_html2pdf.htm

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    guti

    Reviewing 5.2.6 (May 2, 2008)

    Lots of nice features natively of by using extensions. Pretty easy web development.

    Some bugs exists version after version, due to its complexity, by they tend to be fixed early.

    In terms of speed, in the beginnings, it was faster than ASP, and on pair with Coldfusion. Nowadays, it has outperformed Coldfusion, but is not as fast as ASP.NET.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Briantist

    Reviewing 5.2.5 (Nov 13, 2007)

    You can't find a better language than PHP.

    Used to C++? PHP can do your OO programming.

    Like your procedural language like BASIC or MODULA2? PHP can do it...

    PHP, of course, works brilliantly with mySQL, which gives the world LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

    PHP is also a great AJAX backend too.

    I've used many langages and PHP is all of them!

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    acey99

    Reviewing 5.2.3 (Jun 1, 2007)

    I've used Both PHP & ASP

    PHP has most things built in if not you can add it, usually FREE.

    ASP relies on MS & other vendors to add to it & usually costs $$$.

    PHP = C/Perl Based
    ASP = VB Based.

    you be the judge.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    UniversityofKentucky

    Reviewing 5.2.3 (Jun 1, 2007)

    Acey - I agree that FPDF is excellent. I use/love it. Only caveat is it hasn't been updated since 12/04. Still I won't complain about freeware.

    ds0934 - You are correct about the benefits of various scripting languages. But it's ignorant to rank PHP low b/c you prefer ASP and, as you indicated, you have limited experience with PHP. I have limited experience with ASP, but wouldn't give it a mediocre rating b/c of that.

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