PHP is created by Rasums Lerdorf, which starts to be a simple program written in Perl language to record accessers of Rasums Lerdorf's own online resume. After it is rereaded with the C language, the range is expanded to the access database. During this time, many people have copying to Rasums Lerdorf to this program for themselves. Rasums Lerdorf has written some documents that describe this program and publish PHP V1.0. In the future, more and more people began to use PHP and strongly demand that some other features, such as cyclic statements and array variables. At this time, some other programmers have also begun to participate.
The preparation of the PHP source code (mainly Zeev Suraki and Andi Gutmans), it is obvious that the PHP at this time must be rewritten for future development. Therefore, PHP V3.0 will appear.