Support for PHP 5.6 drops on December 31 – but a recent report found that almost 62 percent of websites are still using version 5. Almost 62 percent of all websites are still running PHP version 5 – even as version 5.6 of the server-side scripting language inches toward an ominous end-of-life. Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), a programming language designed for use in web-based applications with HTML
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