The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes.

The latest release of the PHP programming language brings new features such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility and new array search functions.

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 ...

PHP remains a popular programming language choice among developers, ranking fourth since 2015 in GitHub's annual Octoverse survey behind JavaScript, Python and Java, and between fifth place in ...

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default.