What is PHP as "Personal Home Page" and "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor"?
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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.
Jacob Relkin
2010-06-15 07:13:17
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It is:
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
Previously it was:
Personal Home Page
See:
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.)
Sarfraz
2010-06-15 07:13:24
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Personal Home Page was full form of PHP initially.
Nowadays, PHP stands for PHP Hypertext preprocessor. Still you can word see PHP in this elaboration which still is Personal Home Page
Starx
2010-06-15 07:19:55
No, the "PHP" in "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" now stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor". Recursion is fun. :o)
deceze
2010-06-15 07:23:51
To satisfy everyone, PHP is "Personal Home Page Hypertext Preprocessor"
Lie Ryan
2010-06-15 07:25:31
I'm afraid the comment boxes on SO are too small to hold the fully expanded name. To expand the acronym, replace "PHP" in "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" with "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor". Repeat until you have expanded the acronym. :)
deceze
2010-06-15 07:30:31