ProgrammingGet help with creating your scripts/software or help others. Discuss anything relating to programming. Includes PHP, Perl, C++, ColdFusion, etc.
PHP, in it's basic version was written by Rasmus Lerdorf, using some perl scripts to maintain his homepage and was released in June 1995.
Later, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, in 1997, recode parser of PHP and formed PHP3.
I have a notion that the C# is the main platform from which PHP was developed. Today it is the mostly used web language. It is used in creating sites and any major application.
Actually both are free open source and PHP is good web programming language and Magento is a powerful platform for eCommerce website creation. And I use both, so I can't go particular with one.