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<reference id="faq.general">
<title>General Information</title>
<titleabbrev>General Information about PHP</titleabbrev>
<partintro>
<para>
This section holds the most general questions about PHP :
what it is and what it does.
</para>
</partintro>
<refentry id="faq.general.what">
<refnamediv>
<refpurpose>What is PHP ?</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
From the <ulink url="&url.php.manual;">manual</ulink> :
<para>
</para>
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of
its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique
PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to
allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
<para>
</para>
A nice introduction to PHP by Stig Sæther Bakken can be found
<ulink url="&url.zend.introduction;">here</ulink> on the Zend
website.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="faq.general.relation-between-versions">
<refnamediv>
<refpurpose>What is the relation between the versions?</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
PHP/FI 2.0 is an early and no longer supported version of PHP. PHP 3
is the successor to PHP/FI 2.0 and is a lot nicer. PHP 4 is the latest
generation of PHP, which uses the <ulink url="&url.zend;">Zend engine</ulink>
under the hood.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="faq.general.running-concurent-versions">
<refnamediv>
<refpurpose>Can I run several versions of PHP at the same time ?</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
Yes. See the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file that is included in the PHP 4
source distribution.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="faq.general.differences-php3-php4">
<refnamediv>
<refpurpose>What are the differences between PHP 3 and PHP 4?</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
There are <ulink url="&url.zend.articles;">a couple of articles</ulink>
written on this by the authors of PHP4. Here's a
list of some of the more important new features:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<simpara>Extended API module.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>Generalized build process under UNIX</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>Generic web server interface that also supports multi-threaded web
servers</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>Improved syntax highlighter</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>Native HTTP session support</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>Output buffering support</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>More powerful configuration system</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>Reference counting</simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
Please see the <ulink url="&url.zend.new;">What's new in PHP4 overview</ulink>
for a detailed explanation of these features and more.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
</reference>
