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PH7 History - Why PHP?
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PH7 was developed in the early 2011 by a Tunisian startup for a French conglomerate which was looking for a way to power the web interface of their commercial routers.
Previously the technology used by the conglomerate was obsolete and based on a minimal HTTP server (micro-httpd written by Jef Poskanzer) and a hard-coded binary (the web interface) served via old CGI interface.
This poor combination shows its limitation when the company decided to switch to a user-configurable (self config) routers where everything must be done via the web interface. This involve a dynamic web UI that have to deal with many issues.
In order to keep the low level software layer of the router untouched, it was decided to write all the web interface in a dynamic web oriented programming language and the compilation result to be executed by a virtual machine (PH7) and thus leaving the low-level stack of the router untouched.
PH7 in 5 Minutes or Less
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