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<div id="preface" class="preface">
<div class="info"><h1 class="title">Preface</h1>
<div class="abstract">
<p class="simpara">
<acronym title="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</acronym>, which stands for "<i>PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor</i>" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose
scripting language that is especially suited for Web
development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws
upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of
the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically
generated web pages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="para">
This manual consists primarily of a <a href="funcref.php" class="link">
function reference</a>, but also contains a
<a href="langref.php" class="link">language reference</a>, explanations
of some of PHP's major <a href="features.php" class="link">features</a>,
and other <a href="appendices.php" class="link">supplemental</a>
information.
</p>
<p class="para">
You can download this manual in several formats at <a href="http://www.php.net/download-docs.php" class="link external">» http://www.php.net/download-docs.php</a>.
More information about how this manual is developed can be found in the
<a href="about.php" class="link">'About the manual'</a> appendix. If you are
interested in the <a href="history.php" class="link">history of PHP</a>,
visit the relevant appendix.
</p>
<div id="contributors" class="section">
<div class="info"><h1 class="title">Authors and Contributors</h1></div>
<p class="para"> We highlight the currently most active
people on front page of the manual, but there are many more contributors who
currently help in our work or have provided a great amount of help to the project
in the past. There are a lot of unnamed people who help out with user
notes on manual pages, which continually get included in the references, the
work of whom we are also very thankful for. All of the lists provided below are in
alphabetical order.
</p>
<div class="section">
<div class="info"><h1 class="title">Authors and Editors</h1></div>
<p class="para">
The following contributors should be
recognized for the impact they have made and/or continue to make by adding
content to the manual:
Bill Abt,
Jouni Ahto,
Alexander Aulbach,
Daniel Beckham,
Stig Bakken,
Jesus M. Castagnetto,
Ron Chmara,
Sean Coates,
John Coggeshall,
Simone Cortesi,
Markus Fischer,
Wez Furlong,
Sara Golemon,
Rui Hirokawa,
Brad House,
Pierre-Alain Joye,
Etienne Kneuss,
Moriyoshi Koizumi,
Rasmus Lerdorf,
Andrew Lindeman,
Stanislav Malyshev,
Rafael Martinez,
Rick McGuire,
Yasuo Ohgaki,
Derick Rethans,
Rob Richards,
Sander Roobol,
Egon Schmid,
Thomas Schoefbeck,
Sascha Schumann,
Dan Scott,
Masahiro Takagi,
Michael Wallner,
Lars Torben Wilson,
Jim Winstead,
Jeroen van Wolffelaar and
Andrei Zmievski.
</p>
<p class="para">
The following contributors have done
significant work editing the manual:
Stig Bakken,
Gabor Hojtsy,
Hartmut Holzgraefe and
Egon Schmid.
</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
<div class="info"><h1 class="title">User Note Maintainers</h1></div>
<p class="para">
The currently most active maintainers are:
Daniel Brown,
Nuno Lopes,
Felipe Pena,
Thiago Pojda and
Maciek Sokolewicz.
</p>
<p class="para">
These people have also put a lot of effort
into managing user notes:
Mehdi Achour,
Daniel Beckham,
Friedhelm Betz,
Victor Boivie,
Jesus M. Castagnetto,
Nicolas Chaillan,
Ron Chmara,
Sean Coates,
James Cox,
Vincent Gevers,
Sara Golemon,
Zak Greant,
Szabolcs Heilig,
Oliver Hinckel,
Hartmut Holzgraefe,
Etienne Kneuss,
Rasmus Lerdorf,
Matthew Li,
Andrew Lindeman,
Aidan Lister,
Hannes Magnusson,
Maxim Maletsky,
Bobby Matthis,
James Moore,
Philip Olson,
Sebastian Picklum,
Derick Rethans,
Sander Roobol,
Damien Seguy,
Jason Sheets,
Tom Sommer,
Jani Taskinen,
Yasuo Ohgaki,
Jakub Vrana,
Lars Torben Wilson,
Jim Winstead,
Jared Wyles and
Jeroen van Wolffelaar.
</p>
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