php -- is it an acronym?

Client Joined: Sep 10, 2004 Posts: 166

Does anyone know what php stands for?

New Member Joined: Oct 13, 2004 Posts: 15

the full form of php is
PHP is Hypertext Preprocessor
just like GNU Thats what i believe!

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:46 am

Huh? what does the first P stand for?

I'm not sure what you mean it's just like GNU, that is a different acronym. Smile

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:54 am

see YOU have PHP
the full form is

Quote:

PHP:Hypertext Preproccesor

ie first P in PHP stands for

Quote:

PHP:

itself, second H in PHP stands for

Quote:

Hypertext

and third P in PHP stands for

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Preprocessor

i think this explains my belief. Its a short of recursion. Hope this helps you.
nagu

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:09 am

(*chuckle*) I still don't understand what the first P stands for.

P = ?
H = Hypertext
P = Preprocessor

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:13 am

first P stands for PHP and the First P in this PHP stands again for PHP and so on thats why i said its a kind of recursion. its like watching the same TV inside the TV

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:25 am

Why do I think you're pulling my leg?

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:29 am

That i cant help Smile

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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:34 am

http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php

If you name "HP" where do you think of ?

Client Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 624

People Hacking People is what it stands for, right DJMaze? Wink

Subject Matter Expert Joined: Feb 23, 2004 Posts: 358

PHP was originally developed in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, and it stood for 'Personal Home Pages'. PHP at this time was nothing like we know it now. It was basically a bunch of modified Perl scripts and functions designed to allow Lerdorf to gather information about people who came to his website looking at his resume. A year later, in '95, Lerdorf released a public version of it for others to use and develop. The first significant addition to PHP was the ability to process HTML Form data, and mSQL support was also quickly added for a way to store the info retreived by HTML Forms.

In mid 1997, a group of developers took over PHP and re-wrote almost the entire engine into what became known as "PHP 3". As of PHP v3, they dropped the acronym of 'Personal Home Pages' and instead adopted 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor' (meaning: dynamically manipulating Hypertext BEFORE it is output to the browser). This brought 'interactive' type web develop to the consumer level (read: you and me Wink

).

PHrEEk

New Member Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 1

Yeah, it is a recursive acronym. This may help you understand it better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym.

bnilles