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Where the PHP Name Came From

How the PHP acronym was reborn: Interesting post from one of the old-school PHP guys about ho the language came to be called “PHP”. There really wasn’t much rhyme or reason to it. This is a quote from Rasmus back in 1998:

… I think I would prefer to just call it PHP and leave it up to the users to assign a meaning to the acronym. People Hate Programming, People Hate Perl, Please Hold Parties, Pretty HTML Programs, Perfect HTML Pages, Putrid Hateful Puke… whatever

by Deane   July 20, 2007 8:11 AM   |
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Comments

by aaron,   July 20, 2007 1:39 PM  

It stands (stood) for Personal Home Page script. Ugly but true.

by philip,   July 20, 2007 2:07 PM  

Just to be clear, the name always had PHP in it but the meaning behind the acronym changed over time. About three times from 1995-1998. The current meaning has remained...

by georgeMandis,   July 20, 2007 9:53 PM  

That's hilarious.

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