PHP.net is a website dedicated to the Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) technology. PHP is a dynamic web-programming language. This website gives a sneak peek at all the news and upcoming events concerning the PHP technology.
The website is a laid out in a very simple manner, with a brief description of what PHP is at one side, while new releases and upcoming conferences and events are mentioned on the other. The main section of the website, which is in the centre, is however allotted for detailed wordings about the new releases, the security shortcomings fixed in them, the features newly added, etc. and the scrapping out of the older release versions. The central portion of the website is presented in the form of a news archive, with newer postings appearing at the top. Since the site isn’t too flashy or is low in designs, it loads quickly and makes for an easier read. An appropriate webpage layout for a tech-site, we must say.
At the top is a simple purple coloured banner, which matches with the logo, which is displayed on the left. Several links are present on this banner, which are accessible to various other sections of the site like FAQ, the Getting Help section, Reporting Bugs, Documentation, Downloads, Conferences, etc.
The search feature on the site is very comprehensive, besides providing various options to search for content in various partner sites of www.php.net. At the very bottom of the site, there is a mention of the team involved in developing the code for PHP, in the Credits section. There is a Sitemap for people who get lost amidst so much content, and as usual with any website, there is a Contact link, the page of which takes us to 3 links - Bugs, Support and e-mail. One shortcoming here, however, is a mail form which is a very simple possibility of PHP.