php4 | server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (meta-package) | Mehr ...
This package is a meta-package that, when installed, guarantees that you have at least one of the four server-side versions of the PHP4 interpreter installed. Removing this package won't remove PHP4 from your system, however it may remove other packages that depend on this one. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. . Homepage: http://www.php.net/
php4-pear | PHP Extension and Application Repository (transitional package) | Mehr ...
This is a transitional package to move people to the "php-pear" package, which is now generated from the php5 sources. It depends on php-pear, as well as the classes which used to be in php4-pear, but are no longer in the upstream PEAR distribution. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
