[php] What does PHP mean?
| From: | John Taylor-Johnston | Date: | Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:02:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | [php] What does PHP mean? | ||
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I'm writing an article where I'm going to explain what PHP is in a short sentence.
PHP once meant Personal Home Page, right?
PHP, originally an anacronym for "Personal Home Page", is a textual, "general-purpose
scripting language" (www.PHP.net) designed to collect and process data between HTML pages and
the Internet.
Any objections? There was an article someplace about Rasmus Lerdorf calling it such, in the
beginning. (http://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php)
(recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor")
»» This is the general group. It is a general question? :)
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