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Dennis Ploeger

Doesn't php stand for "php hypertext preprocessor"?

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Mourad Bougarne

That's TRUE.

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Firoz Ansari

I believe it was first called "Personal Home Page" (hence PHP) but later it was renamed to "Hypertext Preprocessor"

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Bob Bass • Edited

Then wouldn't it technically stand for ((Personal home page) Hypertext Preprocessor) or PersonalhomepageHypertextPreprocessor?
It seems strange for the first P in PHP to stand for PHP.

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Dennis Ploeger

It's a recursive acronym. Like GNU (GNU's not Unix)

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Dennis Ploeger

Nerds! 🤷🏽

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Casper

It was originally called Personal Home Page, but as it grew larger they decided to change it to Php Hypertext Preprocessor.

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