Zend employees, including company founders, are active in PHP open-source efforts, but the company does not have "complete control" over the project, Goldberg said.

Maybe embracing PHP on the Azure platform was inevitable, maybe it was just a smart move. The question is, will interoperability with open source PHP make enough of a difference to matter.

A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the ...

Unknown attackers compromised the official PHP Git server and planted a backdoor in the source code of the programming language.