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In many ways the PHP language is representative of the stereotypical open source project, created to meet a developer’s otherwise unmet needs and refined over time to meet the needs of its growing community. As a budding PHP developer, it’s important you possess some insight into how the language has progressed, as it will help you to understand the language’s strengths, and to some extent the reasoning behind its occasional idiosyncrasies.
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© 2007 W. Jason Gilmore, Bob Bryla
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(2007). Introducing PHP. In: Beginning PHP and Oracle. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0367-4_1
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