Cyber Operations: Building, Defending, and Attacking Modern Computer Networks

© Mike O'Leary 2019

Mike O'LearyCyber Operationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4294-0_20

20.  PHP

Mike O’Leary¹ 

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Towson, MD, USA

 

Introduction

PHP is the final component of the traditional “LAMP” stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP. It provides a full-featured programming language to develop web pages with active content; it currently is used as the server-side programming language for roughly 80% of all web sites. The current version of PHP is PHP 7, which was initially released in December 2015. During 2011–2018, some systems continued to support and run the older PHP 5, which was released in 2004. PHP 6 was only partially developed and never reached general availability.

PHP is included in the software repositories for the different ...