RE: [PHP] What does PHP stand for?

From what I heard, the acronym originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it kind of changed (unofficially?) to Hypertext Preprocessor. I could be wrong -----Original Message----- From: Martín Marqués [mailto:martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:08 PM To: John Meyer; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] What does PHP stand for? On Mar 28 Ago 2001 19:52, John Meyer wrote: > At 05:15 PM 8/28/01 +0228, you wrote: > >It's actually a recursive acronym, like GNU: > > > > From the manual: > > > >"PHP, which stands for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor', is an > >HTML-embedded scripting language." > > > >J > > Am I making things up, or Did it stand for Perl Hypertext Preprocessor > at one time? I always thought it meant Personal Home Page (isn't this right?) Saludos.... :-) -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | mmarques@unl.edu.ar Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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