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What does PHP stand for?
Mar 7th, 2009 12:23
marshal prince, dman, ha mo, Philip Olson, Knud van Eeden, unknown unknown, Mike G., Techek, Matt Gregory, jeffrey chong, http://www.ttnr.org
PHP is a recursive acronym that stands for:
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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
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The following PHP faq mentions this, as does the manuals preface:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.general.php#AEN74233
http://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php
The definition of "recursive acronym" can be seen here:
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?recursive+acronym
The history of PHP may interest you, have a look:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php
Note that originally PHP/FI stood for:
Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter
Which can also be read about in the old PHP/FI manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.php#history
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