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| PHP version and switches | |
| Genre | Programming language |
| License | PHP License |
| Source model | Open source |
| Price | Free |
| Stable | 8.3.9 |
| Release status | released |
| Written in | C |
| Website | https://www.php.net/ |
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PHP is an interpreted language. Many widespread softwares and services use or have used PHP or a fork of it, like Wordpress and Facebook.
For the most common applications it's used in conjunction with a web server like Apache or Nginx to process .php files.
For developers PHP offers a simplified web server (-S switch) to load and debug local scripts.