With yesterday being April 1st, it was only appropriate that some of the PHP community members got in on the prank-pulling. Here's a list that I've gathered so far:

Tobias Schlitt's GOSUB for PHP
• The Phails Framework
• for the Solar PHP framework, the Solar_Mind_Read functionality

Pull a joke that you don't see here? Let us know! We'll add it in!

In a new blog entry Philip Olson takes a look back at the "brief history" of the PHP logo and how its evolved over the years the language has been around.

PHP 4.0.0 added main/logo.h which contains the logos themselves (as text (a bunch of numbers (magic))) so I checked out every version of this file from CVS, parsed them to create the images, sorted by version/size, then wrote this blog post.

When the language started out there wasn't much in the way of a logo until PHP3 came around. Philip shows some of these early prototypes (most of which look nothing like the familiar purple oval of today). Things evolved with PHP4 and jokes were even played with the area inside the shape - everything from developers and dogs to bunnies showed up at different times of year or with special URLs.