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Is PHP really a "Hypertext Preprocessor" as the name suggests? [duplicate]

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What is PHP as "Personal Home Page" and "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor"?

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Starx Avatar asked Jun 15 '10 07:06

Starx


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It is:

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Previously it was:

Personal Home Page

See:

The History of PHP

PHP was written in the C programming language by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 for use in monitoring his online resume and related personal information. For this reason, PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page". Lerdorf combined PHP with his own Form Interpreter, releasing the combination publicly as PHP/FI (generally referred to as PHP 2.0) on June 8, 1995. Two programmers, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rebuilt PHP's core, releasing the updated result as PHP/FI 2 in 1997. The acronym was formally changed to PHP: HyperText Preprocessor, at this time. (This is an example of a recursive acronym: where the acronym itself is in its own definition.)

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Sarfraz Avatar answered Oct 20 '22 17:10

Sarfraz