But here’s the frustrating part—sometimes when you try to update PHP, your site crashes, and you’re left scrambling to figure out which plugin or theme caused the problem.

If a PHP release had actually shipped with this code intact, the damage would be astounding, as this would be a simple-to-use backdoor in every web service using PHP.

Faster Code Execution: PHP 8 is the first PHP version that has a compiler – JIT – that caches your interpreted code and generates a machine code as an output.

A recently patched security flaw in modern versions of the PHP programming language is being exploited in the wild to take over servers, ZDNet has learned from threat intelligence firm Bad Packets ...

New DOM API in PHP 8.4.1 brings standards-compliant support for parsing HTML5 documents and adds functions to make working with documents more convenient.

Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added a line that, if run by a PHP-powered website, would have allowed visitors with no authorization to execute code of their choice.