What is PHP as "Personal Home Page" and "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor"?
Question by Starx
What is PHP as “Personal Home Page” and “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor”?
Answer by Sarfraz
It is:
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
Previously it was:
Personal Home Page
See:
PHP was written in the C programming
language by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 for
use in monitoring his online resume
and related personal information. For
this reason, PHP originally stood for
“Personal Home Page“. Lerdorf combined
PHP with his own Form Interpreter,
releasing the combination publicly as
PHP/FI (generally referred to as PHP
2.0) on June 8, 1995. Two programmers, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rebuilt
PHP’s core, releasing the updated
result as PHP/FI 2 in 1997. The
acronym was formally changed to PHP:
HyperText Preprocessor, at this time.
(This is an example of a recursive
acronym: where the acronym itself is
in its own definition.)
Answer by Starx
Personal Home Page was full form of PHP initially.
Nowadays, PHP stands for PHP Hypertext preprocessor. Still you can word see PHP in this elaboration which still is Personal Home Page
