Re: What "PHP" Stands For....

From: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:26:28 +0000
Subject: Re: What "PHP" Stands For....
References: 1  Groups: php.general 
Request: Send a blank email to php-general+get-36117@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message
Yeah, it used to be called PHP/FI for Personal Home Page / Form Interpreter I do believe. Not sure about the "Interpreter" but I think that was it. Gfunk - http://www.gfunk007.com/ I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication to hangovers, and hangovers to... suffering. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian White" <bwhite@steptwo.com.au> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:20 AM Subject: [PHP] What "PHP" Stands For.... > > From the preface of the manual: > > 'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...' > > I frankly don't beleive that "PHP" started life as a recursively > defined acronym - I remember reading somewhere that it stood for > "Personal Home Page" which makes more sense to me. > > Anybody know the truth? > > Regs > > Brian White > ------------------------- > Brian White > Step Two Designs Pty Ltd - SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy > > http://www.steptwo.com.au/ > bwhite@steptwo.com.au > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >

« previous php.general (#36117) next »