Zeev Suraski

Zeev Suraski (2007)

Zeev Suraski ( Hebrew זאב סורסקי) is an Israeli software developer and has been working on the PHP project since 1997 . While working in the Web Development Department of Netvision , Israel 's largest ISP , Suraski became familiar with PHP / FI and decided to use it in a Technion University Web Project on which he worked with Andi Gutmans .

During their work on the project, they repeatedly encountered bugs and the limits of PHP / FI 2.0. They decided to let the project rest and rewrite PHP with some of the most popular modules . This was the cornerstone for PHP 3.

Suraski and Gutmans then developed the Zend Engine  - the scripting language behind PHP 4. They also designed other important PHP 4 components, such as: B. the server abstraction layer and the multithreading support. Zeev Suraski is the Co-Founder and CTO of Zend Technologies .

Gutman and Suraski's work on the PHP core has been repeatedly honored:

• Members of the Apache Software Foundation
• Nomination for the GNU 1999 Free Software Award
• Candidate for the 1998 CNET Web Innovators Award
• 1999 LinuxWorld Editor's Choice Awards
• Technion award for University's most creative project 1997
• Co-winner (with ASP developers) of the Web Tools Award from Web Techniques Magazine

Contribution to PHP:

• Co-developer of the Zend engine
• Co-developer of the PHP / Zend extension API
• ported PHP 4 to Win32
• Co-SAPI Web server abstraction - layer for PHP 4
• developed the ISAPI / IIS SAPI modules, co-developed the Apache SAPI module
• developed the MySQL , mSQL , Sybase and PostgreSQL modules
• developed the output buffering of PHP 4.0.

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