PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.

Judging by book sales, you would think that PHP’s heyday was done, as PHP book sales dropped 25 percent from 2009 to 2010. But a collapse in interest in learning the finer points of PHP is not ...

The venerable web programming language PHP is a source of frequent complaints and frustration, but according to a report W3Techs released today, it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.

Most of the time, it's used in conjunction another language, like PHP. ... #11: C, one of the oldest programming languages still in common use, was created in the early 1970s.