Why “PHP” is being discussed
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It will take time if the PHP sites have a database with a business model built on PHP. But with agentic coding, at least it is easier. I already transferred all wordpress static…
by system2 · Oct 21, 2026
Other runtimes certainly have their vulnerabilities. It is just that it seems like PHP values backwards compatibility less than Node, Python, Java, or C#. It seems like there is…
by pseudosavant · Oct 21, 2026
Love it! Finally somebody gets it. I got downvoted heavily by other HNers for merely offering a solution to protect people’s legacy PHP servers. They said it should be deleted a…
by EGreg · Oct 21, 2026
companies probably have php and Python applications exposed to the web and nobody knows. the speed of irresponsible deployments is infinite now, by design
by iririririr · Oct 21, 2026
> Earlier this year, we worked with Alpha-Omega to scan PHP with Anthropic's Claude Mythos Any info on whether Mythos missed this?
by Quitschquat · Oct 21, 2026
A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities
by kozika · Oct 21, 2026 · 1 points
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PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Read more on Wikipedia