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PHP and the Language That Grew Up Inside the Web Server

PHP evolved from Rasmus Lerdorf's small collection of web-page tools into a server-side language whose defining convenience was that dynamic code could live directly beside HTML and databases.

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Composer and Packagist: Dependency Management Becomes Standard PHP Infrastructure

Composer brought declarative dependency constraints, lockfiles and autoload generation to PHP projects, while Packagist became the default public repository connecting package metadata to source distributions.

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