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What's the meaning of PHP ?
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What's the meaning of PHP ?
I have always wanted to ask this, I know, it's something stupid to ask this in a forum like this, but since I dont know the answer
and I'm begining to learn PHP... at least I should know what's the meaning of the programming language I'm learning right
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what is the meaning of php, I mean life
I believe it stands for
pre hypertext processing
don't quote me but that seems to ring a bell.
don't quote me but that seems to ring a bell.
PHP stands for 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor'. It's a recursive definition.
Recursive means that the meaning is derived from a previous iteration.
So the PHP in the above definition also means 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor', which becomes 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor Hypertext Preprocessor and so on. A sort of geeky joke!
Recursive means that the meaning is derived from a previous iteration.
So the PHP in the above definition also means 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor', which becomes 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor Hypertext Preprocessor and so on. A sort of geeky joke!
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It All Began...
... some time in 1994 when Rasmus Lerdorf put together a bunch of Perl scripts to track down who was looking at his resume. Little by little, people started to get interested in the scripts, and they were later released as a package "Personal Home Page" tools (the first meaning of PHP). In view of the interest, he wrote a scripting engine and incorporated another tool to parse input from HTML forms: FI, Form Interpreter, thus creating what was called variously PHP/FI or PHP2. This was done around mid 1995.
Soon, people started to use these tools to do more complicated things, and the development changed from just one person, to a group of core developers in charge of the project and its organization. This was the beginning of PHP3. This group of developers (Rasmus Lerdorf, Andi Gutmans, Zeev Suraski, Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, andjim Winstead), improved and extended the scripting engine and added a simple API that allows other programmers the liberty to add more functionality to the language by writing modules for it. The language's syntax was also refined, with constructs that will be familiar for people coming from object oriented or procedural languages. If you know C, C++ or java, or have done even some shell/awk scripting, or written a Pascal or VBasic program, learning the basic PHP constructs would be a breeze.
PHP now stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor", as said before.
-James
... some time in 1994 when Rasmus Lerdorf put together a bunch of Perl scripts to track down who was looking at his resume. Little by little, people started to get interested in the scripts, and they were later released as a package "Personal Home Page" tools (the first meaning of PHP). In view of the interest, he wrote a scripting engine and incorporated another tool to parse input from HTML forms: FI, Form Interpreter, thus creating what was called variously PHP/FI or PHP2. This was done around mid 1995.
Soon, people started to use these tools to do more complicated things, and the development changed from just one person, to a group of core developers in charge of the project and its organization. This was the beginning of PHP3. This group of developers (Rasmus Lerdorf, Andi Gutmans, Zeev Suraski, Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, andjim Winstead), improved and extended the scripting engine and added a simple API that allows other programmers the liberty to add more functionality to the language by writing modules for it. The language's syntax was also refined, with constructs that will be familiar for people coming from object oriented or procedural languages. If you know C, C++ or java, or have done even some shell/awk scripting, or written a Pascal or VBasic program, learning the basic PHP constructs would be a breeze.
PHP now stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor", as said before.
-James
some right
Well at least I got some of it right.
Thanks for the history lesson James.
Thanks for the history lesson James.