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  • As programmers like to say, the acronym itself is "recursive." It stands for PHP Hypertext Processor.
  • "PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym." (Retrieved from http://us4.php.net/manual/en/faq.general.php#faq.general.acronym)
  • Originally, it stood for Personal Home Page. Eventually the meaning was changed to PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
  • PHP = Pre Processor for Hypertext. PHP is Open Source, Cross Platform, Server Side and HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. Allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP can talk across networks using IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, or HTTP. PHP was created sometime in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. During mid 1997, PHP development entered the hands of other contributors. Two of them, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rewrote the parser from scratch to create PHP version 3 (PHP3).
  • PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (HTML-embedded scripting language)
  • PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (HTML-embedded scripting language)

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