Setting things straight ...
PHP began life as "Personal Home Page" (Tools), and later the "Personal Home Page" (Construction Kit). Later it would be merged with an SQL query tool for webpages and become PHP/FI, or "Personal Home Page / Form Interpreter".
FastForward to the present day and it's no longer a mere tool to handle generation of Personal Home Pages, reuiring a new acronym, some clever chap came up with:
"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
Cunningly (or not), in the same vein as "GNU's not Unix" and "PINE Is Not Elm", PHP became a recursive acronym, whereby the first letter actually stands for the full acronym.
Deep, huh?
PHP began life as "Personal Home Page" (Tools), and later the "Personal Home Page" (Construction Kit). Later it would be merged with an SQL query tool for webpages and become PHP/FI, or "Personal Home Page / Form Interpreter".
FastForward to the present day and it's no longer a mere tool to handle generation of Personal Home Pages, reuiring a new acronym, some clever chap came up with:
"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
Cunningly (or not), in the same vein as "GNU's not Unix" and "PINE Is Not Elm", PHP became a recursive acronym, whereby the first letter actually stands for the full acronym.
Deep, huh?
<? phpInfo() ?>
by Kureigu-San III February 8, 2004
Partial Hospitalization Program
When a drug user is not using enough to be in an inpatient program but using too much for outpatient typically alcoholic teens
When a drug user is not using enough to be in an inpatient program but using too much for outpatient typically alcoholic teens
by Urfavbitxh April 28, 2018
Hypertext Preprocessor.
(Earlier Personal Home Page.)
A modern high-level server-side scripting language for the HTTP protocol (CGI.) An alternative to ASP, Perl, Python, TCL, etc.
PHP is claimed to be installed on 20% of the domains on the Internet, including the webserver that hosts urbandictionary.com. The engine that keeps track of all the words and definitions is written in PHP. See www.php.net for more information.
(Earlier Personal Home Page.)
A modern high-level server-side scripting language for the HTTP protocol (CGI.) An alternative to ASP, Perl, Python, TCL, etc.
PHP is claimed to be installed on 20% of the domains on the Internet, including the webserver that hosts urbandictionary.com. The engine that keeps track of all the words and definitions is written in PHP. See www.php.net for more information.
by zacon November 29, 2003
PHP is a server side scripting language primarily developed and used by the open source community. It is frequently used in conjunction with Linux, Apache, and MySQL, as part of a LAMP set up.
According to their history, the phrase originally stood for "Personal HomePage", and now stands for "Hypertext Processor".
There is a hidden history, though. The initial uses of the language were for serving porn pages, and later, developing an online booking and tracking system for 'escorts'.
As a result, the initial developers began referring to the language as "Pimps, Hoes and Playaz".
According to their history, the phrase originally stood for "Personal HomePage", and now stands for "Hypertext Processor".
There is a hidden history, though. The initial uses of the language were for serving porn pages, and later, developing an online booking and tracking system for 'escorts'.
As a result, the initial developers began referring to the language as "Pimps, Hoes and Playaz".
"Ugh, I have to write this stupid blog software for this client who doesn't want to use an existing solution."
"Use PHP."
"Use PHP."
by scriptkidder February 18, 2010
A server side scripting language that is commonly used to render web pages. It sounds like a drug so its cool to say things like "I did some PHP over the weekend" or "I got a good high of my PHP stash."
by w00tw00t April 6, 2003
PHP is a powerful web scripting language, famous for its ease of use and ability to interact seamlessly with SQL type databases. PHP takes a lot of its syntax from Perl and C++, and it is in this way that programmers familiar with these languages can pick up PHP rather easily.
Advantages: Can be much easier to read than Perl, arguably easier to learn
Disadvantages: Might teach sloppy programming habits (not having to define variables etc) and can be less compact than Perl.
Advantages: Can be much easier to read than Perl, arguably easier to learn
Disadvantages: Might teach sloppy programming habits (not having to define variables etc) and can be less compact than Perl.
by haze December 30, 2004
A web scripting language that is simply better than you. It can talk to databases, plug and chug math you only wet-dreamed about, and paint on freaking digital images. It's so cash, it's variables have to start with dollar signs. Rasmus Lerdorf (aka the jizz hammer) invented this beast.
by TheEqualizer August 4, 2009