goba Sat Dec 15 11:45:47 2001 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/chapters intro.xml
/phpdoc/en/appendices history.xml
Log:
Some corrections in history.xml, removing brief history from intro.xml
Index: phpdoc/en/chapters/intro.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/chapters/intro.xml:1.25 phpdoc/en/chapters/intro.xml:1.26
--- phpdoc/en/chapters/intro.xml:1.25 Wed Dec 12 15:46:31 2001
+++ phpdoc/en/chapters/intro.xml Sat Dec 15 11:45:45 2001
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.25 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.26 $ -->
<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
@@ -223,62 +223,6 @@
reference</link> part for explanation of the extensions
mentioned here.
</para>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="intro-history">
- <title>A brief history of PHP</title>
- <simpara>
- PHP was conceived sometime in the fall of 1994 by &link.rasmus;.
- Early non-released versions were used on his home page to keep
- track of who was looking at his online resume. The first version
- used by others was available sometime in early 1995 and was known
- as the Personal Home Page Tools. It consisted of a very
- simplistic parser engine that only understood a few special macros
- and a number of utilities that were in common use on home pages
- back then. A guestbook, a counter and some other stuff. The
- parser was rewritten in mid-1995 and named PHP/FI Version 2. The
- FI came from another package Rasmus had written which interpreted
- html form data. He combined the Personal Home Page tools scripts
- with the Form Interpreter and added mSQL support and PHP/FI was
- born. PHP/FI grew at an amazing pace and people started
- contributing code to it.
- </simpara>
- <simpara>
- It is difficult to give any hard statistics, but it is estimated
- that by late 1996 PHP/FI was in use on at least 15,000 web sites
- around the world. By mid-1997 this number had grown to over
- 50,000. Mid-1997 also saw a change in the development of PHP. It
- changed from being Rasmus' own pet project that a handful of
- people had contributed to, to being a much more organized team
- effort. The parser was rewritten from scratch by Zeev Suraski and
- Andi Gutmans and this new parser formed the basis for PHP Version
- 3. A lot of the utility code from PHP/FI was ported over to PHP 3
- and a lot of it was completely rewritten.
- </simpara>
- <simpara>
- The latest version (PHP 4) uses the <ulink
- url="&url.zend;">Zend</ulink> scripting engine to deliver higher
- performance, supports an even wider array of third-party libraries
- and extensions, and runs as a native server module with all of the
- popular web servers.
- </simpara>
- <simpara>
- Today (1/2001) PHP 3 or PHP 4 now ships with a number of
- commercial products such as Red Hat's Stronghold web server.
- A conservative estimate based on an extrapolation from
- numbers provided by <ulink url="&url.netcraft;">Netcraft</ulink>
- (see also <ulink url="&url.netcraft-survey;">Netcraft Web Server
- Survey</ulink>) would be that PHP is in use on over 5,100,000
- sites around the world. To put that in perspective, that is
- slightly more sites than run Microsoft's IIS server on the Internet
- (5.03 million).
- </simpara>
-<!--
- <figure>
- <title>NetCraft Webserver Survey</title>
- <graphic fileref="&url.php.stats;"/>
- </figure>
--->
</sect1>
</chapter>
Index: phpdoc/en/appendices/history.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/appendices/history.xml:1.8 phpdoc/en/appendices/history.xml:1.9
--- phpdoc/en/appendices/history.xml:1.8 Sat Dec 15 11:32:13 2001
+++ phpdoc/en/appendices/history.xml Sat Dec 15 11:45:47 2001
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
<appendix id="history">
<title>History of PHP and related projects</title>
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
simple dynamic Web applications. Rasmus chose to release
the source code for PHP/FI for everybody to see, so that
anybody can use it, as well as fix bugs in it and improve
- it.
+ the code.
</para>
<para>
PHP/FI, which stood for Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter,
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
with a solid infrastructure for lots of different databases,
protocols and APIs, PHP 3.0's extensibility features attracted
dozens of developers to join in and submit new extension
- modules. Arguably, this was one the key to PHP 3.0's tremendous
+ modules. Arguably, this was the key to PHP 3.0's tremendous
success. Other key features introduced in PHP 3.0 were the
object oriented syntax support and the much more powerful
and consistent language syntax.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
<para>
The whole new language was released under a new name, that
removed the implication of limited personal use that the
- PHP/FI 2.0 name held. It was named plain 'PHP', with the
+ PHP/FI 2.0 name held. It was named plain 'PHP', with the
meaning being a recursive acronym - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
</para>
<para>
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
performance of complex applications, and improve the
modularity of PHP's code base. Such applications were made
possible by PHP 3.0's new features and support for a wide
- variety of 3rd party databases and APIs, but PHP 3.0 was
+ variety of third party databases and APIs, but PHP 3.0 was
not designed to handle such complex applications efficiently.
</para>
<para>
@@ -143,12 +143,14 @@
<sect1 id="history.php.related">
<title>History of PHP related projects</title>
+ <!-- Stig and Egon can do this I hope :)
+
<sect2 id="history.phpdoc">
<title>PHP Documentation Project</title>
<para>
- <!-- Stig and Egon can do this I hope :) -->
</para>
</sect2>
+ -->
<sect2 id="history.pear">
<title>PEAR</title>
@@ -192,12 +194,14 @@
</para>
</sect2>
+ <!-- Andrei can do this I hope :)
+
<sect2 id="history.phpgtk">
<title>PHP-GTK</title>
<para>
- <!-- Andrei can do this I hope :) -->
</para>
</sect2>
+ -->
</sect1>
<sect1 id="history.php.books">
@@ -212,7 +216,7 @@
To the best of our knowledge, the first book dedicated to
PHP was 'php- dynamische webauftritte professionell realisieren'
- a German book published in 1999, authored by Egon Schmid,
- Christian Cartus and Richard Blume. The first book in English
+ Christian Cartus and Richard Blume. The first book in English
about PHP was published shortly afterwards, and was 'Core
PHP Programming' by Leon Atkinson. Both of these books covered
PHP 3.0.
