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

The one that is easiest to explain to clients is 'Professional Hypertext Preprocessor' They don't get confused with the recursiveness of PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, and it has the word "professional" in it. The recursiveness, like GNU meaning 'GNU's Not Unix' (or so I've heard) would drive them batty. "This statement is false" - they just wouldn't get it. On the naming thing - perhaps if it was EHP for "Enterprise Hypertext Preprocessor" more PHBs would give it their blessing. After all, it would say 'enterprise', so it MUST be good, right? ;) Brian White wrote: > 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