PHP

PHP acronym  meaning Personal Home Page Tools changed to PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor in 1997, it was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf using C programming language in 1995. PHP is a more of a server-side scripting language than programming language because of it's weakly typed syntax and limited capabilities to system resources, designed for web development to develop web portals, applications and CMS(Content Management System). It has evolved over the years now has a CLI(Command Line Interface) and GUI-based capability to produce stand-alone GUI applications. Major softwares designed using PHP include Content Management Systems like, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, WikiMedia, etc. Current version of PHP is PHP 5.5.0 alpha released on November 2012, of which PHP 6 is yet to be released probably next year which is not known.