The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

What follows is a barometer of scripting languages — JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, R, PHP, and Java — with our best-guess forecast of which languages are rising and falling in ...

The wave of WordPress and Drupal vulnerability warnings and patches over the past couple of years, as well as the never-ending discovery of SQL injection bugs in Web applications, can actually be ...

A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well ...

Zend's John Coggeshall responds to CIO.com's earlier PHP article with his own list of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of PHP application development. Editor’s note: Some readers disagreed with the ...

PHP 7 has finally arrived. It's the first major number update of the popular Web scripting language in 11 years, and it comes just before a new software security report was published that brands PHP ...