The birth of the legendary PHP three founder profile

PHP has been in existence for 12 years so far. During this period it has been continuously improved and has become one of the most important languages in web development. PHP can achieve today, its 3 founders (Rasmus Lerdorf, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans).

The birth of PHP and the experience of Rasmus Lerdorf are inseparable. Rasmus Lerdorf was born in 1968 on the Godhavn/qeqertarsuaq of Dicos Island in Greenland West. He is the pedigree of PHP. Prior to the design of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf had maintained a news satellite communication system in the early 90 and designed a protocol for verifying the correctness of the data. It then received 2 Canadian patents in 1991. In 1991-1993, he worked as a UNIX programmer for nearly 3 years and successfully developed an object-oriented interface generator. In 1994, Rasmus Lerdorf was promoted to Product manager, hosting and designing a number of Unix-based communication and GUI systems. In 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf became an IT consultant. In the following years, he worked in University of Toronto, Bell Global Solutions, IBM, Linuxcare Inc and dot.com Bomb/baby vacation, and designed and developed a large number of software systems.

Rasmus Lerdorf formally joined Yahoo in 2002, in Yahoo he has been engaged in PHP, Apache, Ajax and other technology-related development work and software architecture research,

Fig. 1 Rasmus Lerdorf

Fig. 2 Rasmus Lerdorf and his son

Years of experience in software development has enabled Rasmus Lerdorf to have a deep technical foundation. In 1994, he designed the first version of PHP, PHP1.0, and released it through the community in 1995. In 1996, Rasmus Lerdorf also designed PHP2, in 1998, because Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans were doing graduation design, needed a language for developing web programs, they also considered ASP and JSP, But because ASP can only run on the Windows platform, and JSP is too complex, so they finally chose PHP, but they found that the PHP functionality is still very limited, so they decided to rewrite the underlying parser for PHP, This is the first widely used version of PHP: PHP3.0.

Rasmus Lerdorf has created PHP, but perhaps he is not planning to start a business, but has chosen some companies to continue to pursue his passions. And as a PHP evangelist to all over the world to promote PHP. Figure 3 is Rasmus Lerdorf is in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo a fascinating PHP lecture, among which famous sci-fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke attended the meeting.

Figure 3 Rasmus Lerdorf in Sri Lanka

The other two founders of PHP Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans did not have Rasmus Lerdorf so well-behaved. They rewrote the PHP3.0 parser in 1998, and in 1999 they set up a commercial company Zend for PHP. Once again the myth of two-person entrepreneurship, remember that Google's two founder Brin and Page was founded in 1999 Google, although Zend did not succeed Google, but the establishment of Zend for the commercialization of open source software laid the foundation.

Fig. 4 Zeev Surask

Fig. 5 Andi Gutmans

Zeev Suraski has been engaged in PHP-related work since 1998. After the development of PHP3.0, Suaraski and Gutmans continue their dream of PHP, began to tighten the gongs to develop their Zend engine, that is, later PHP4.0. While designing the PHP4.0, they also designed a number of components for PHP, such as the service abstraction layer and multithreading support.

Suraski and Gutmans seamlessly together to make their achievements extraordinary, and here are some of their accomplishments:

· Member of the Apache Software Foundation

• Nominated for the 1999 GNU Free Software Award

• Won the 1998 CNET Web Innovation Award runner-up

• Won the 1999 LinuxWorld Magazine Best Choice Award

• PK ASP wins in Web technology magazine, making PHP one of the best web development tools.

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