PHP originally stood for personal home pages. It was nothing more than a
parser that interpreted
a few macros to allow people to do extra things (like count visitors) on
their homepage.
PHP/FI or PHP2 was Personal Home Pages/Form Interpreter, and added form
handling and mSQL
to PHP.
PHP3 was the release that was a full blown Scripting Language/Interpreter.
With the release of
PHP as more than a personal homepage toolkit it was renamed "PHP Hypertext
Preprocessor"
The first P actually stands for PHP, making this a recursive acronym
(http://ase.isu.edu/ase01_07/ase01_07/bookcase/ref_sh/foldoc/30/91.htm)
Sheridan Saint-Michel
Website Administrator
FoxJet, an ITW Company
www.foxjet.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martín Marqués" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] What does PHP stand for?
> On Mar 28 Ago 2001 19:52, John Meyer wrote:
> > At 05:15 PM 8/28/01 +0228, you wrote:
> > >It's actually a recursive acronym, like GNU:
> > >
> > > From the manual:
> > >
> > >"PHP, which stands for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor', is an
HTML-embedded
> > >scripting language."
> > >
> > >J
> >
> > Am I making things up, or Did it stand for Perl Hypertext Preprocessor
at
> > one time?
>
> I always thought it meant Personal Home Page (isn't this right?)
>
> Saludos.... :-)
>
> --
> Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
> si podés usar PostgreSQL?
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> Universidad Nacional
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