Phase II: 1997 – 1998

Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski got involved. Birth of the PHP core development group and of the PHP open-source community.
PHP 3.0.
- replacement of the previous “line-by-line” by a “whole script analysis” parsing technique.
- construction of more powerful syntax and functionality.
Simple scripts ran fast.
Installed base exponential growth .

Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski got involved. Birth of the PHP core development group and of the PHP open-source community.