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

That's the truth. PHP started out as a set of "Personal Home Page tools" (1st version), then PHP/FI (PHP + form interpretter [or something similar - I'm not sure 'form interpretter' is completely correct, but that was basically the functionality of the FI portion])... anyway, then sometime during PHP3/4 they opted to change it to Hypertext Preprocessor... it wasn't really just "personal home page tools" anymore ;) Anyway, I only know what I read - I got to the scene to late to actually know this stuff first hand... hope this helps... and if someone who really was on the scene back then cares to comment/correct me, please do ;) --Toby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian White" <bwhite@steptwo.com.au> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:20 PM 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 > >