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

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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

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What does PHP stands for Personal Home Page?

It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

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PHP is a script language and interpreter that is freely available and used primarily on Linux Web servers. PHP, originally derived from Personal Home Page Tools, now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, which the PHP FAQ describes as a "recursive acronym."

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"Personal Home Page Tools" was the original name of PHP, now it is a recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". "PHP/FI" was also another name for PHP.

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Jacob Relkin Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 18:09

Jacob Relkin