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What PHP is and why government sites went offline

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 21 October 2026, 15:48 UTC ·11 sec listen

PHP is a widely used server-side programming language. Government websites can go offline when shared PHP software has a bug, security flaw, or incompatible update, disrupting many services at once. The supplied text does not identify the specific cause.

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