IN THE BEGINNING
It was eight 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 1995.1
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.