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With so many success stories about PHP programming, may it be in web development side or scripting side. Programmers around the world know PHP, but have you ever asked the question about PHP History? Who created PHP and how it started to be one of the most used and successful web development language.

It all started at “Home”

I will share you a little PHP history I have learned since I began using PHP. First what does “PHP” means? Well when Rasmus Lerdorf created the first binaries of what we called PHP today it was used as a small tool to display his personal home page, which is in fact his resume, and to do some certain tasks, such as how much traffic his page was receiving.

PHP Development Timeline

In June 8, 1995 Lerdorf publicly released “Personal Home Page Tools” after Lerdorf combined it with his own Form Interpreter to create PHP/FI (this release is considered PHP version 2). Two Israeli programmers Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans on that time working at Technion IIT, rewrote the parser in 1997 which formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language’s name to what we know now as PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. After of months beta test, PHP 3 began and the official launch on June 1998. Soon after that Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP’s core, producing the Zend Engine in 1999. They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel, which actively manages the development of PHP. In May 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, which is one of the two major versions of PHP are being actively developed, PHP 5 which was released on July 13, 2004 by the new Zend Engine II. PHP 4 will be supported by security updates until August 8, 2008. PHP 6 is currently under development, and is slated to release in conjunction with the decommission of PHP 4.

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While spending 3 long days of no work, I have looked into the web for some puzzles and trivia dealing with dominant brain puzzles and informations. Accidentally I found an article about Bill Gates, and his story about the game Petals Around the Rose. Unfortunately Bill, solved this game longer than I tried the game myself. Okay so you might be thinking how the games work, well the games need a regular dice, it does not matter how many but, the game usually uses 5 dice. The rules are simple :

1. The name of the game is Petals Around the Rose, and the name is significant.
2. The roller will tell you how many petals are around the rose based on the dice roll results
3. If you have figured out the answer for 5 or more consecutive rolls, it is understood that you have solved the puzzle, and you should not tell the answer to anybody.

I have created a simple PHP script which emulates the games, if you are up to the challenge play Petals Around the Rose

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