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Yahoo moved from an internal C-style template tool to PHP for a lot of front-end pages back in the day. Wordpress is PHP, which is over 20% of the web. I'd sa
by redis_mlc 6y ago
Yahoo moved from an internal C-style template tool to PHP for a lot of front-end pages back in the day.
Wordpress is PHP, which is over 20% of the web.
I'd say most web sites (millions) in the period between Web 1.0 and early 2.0 were PHP.
The historical reason for the transition from Perl to PHP was that PHP had a standard library with 3,000 functions and was fast enough, while Perl users needed to install CPAN modules, a problem in shared hosting, and mod_perl is very fast but is not intended for shared hosting.