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PHP 8.5 — What's Coming 1 Zend Engine Versions — 1 Through 4 1 PHP/FI — The Origin Story (1994–1997) 1 PHP 6 — The Version That Never Shipped 1

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PHP 6 — The Version That Never Shipped

PHP 6 was a major development effort (2005–2010) that aimed to bring native Unicode support to PHP but was abandoned due to complexity and performance problems — its features were later cherry-picked into PHP 5.3 and 5.4.

6mo ago PHP beginner

PHP 8.5 — What's Coming PHP 8.5+

PHP 8.5 is in active development (expected late 2025). Confirmed additions include pipe operator |>, first-class callable improvements, and several standard library additions. The release follows PHP's annual November release cycle.

6mo ago PHP beginner

PHP/FI — The Origin Story (1994–1997)

PHP began in 1994 as Personal Home Page Tools — a set of Perl scripts Rasmus Lerdorf wrote to track visits to his online résumé. By 1995 it was rewritten in C, and PHP/FI (Forms Interpreter) 2.0 shipped in 1997 as the first publicly released version.

6mo ago PHP beginner

Zend Engine Versions — 1 Through 4

The Zend Engine is the virtual machine that compiles and executes PHP code. Version 1 (PHP 3) introduced the modern parser; v2 (PHP 5) added OOP; v3 (PHP 7) doubled performance; v4 (PHP 8) added JIT compilation.

6mo ago PHP intermediate