If I am talking to non geeky types, and they bother to ask, I
go with Professional Hypertext Processor.
Now that's a good one I will keep in mind!
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If I am talking to other geeky types I explain the full history of
Personal Home
Page outgrowing it's name to become PHP: Hypertext Processor , recursive
like
GNU ete. etc.
If I am talking to non geeky types, and they bother to ask, I go with
Professional
Hypertext Processor.
Brian
At
I know of 3 php faqs (I know there are tons), maybe we should
make a faq on how to
find faqs? :)
http://alt-php-faq.org/
http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.php
http://php.faqts.com
Rasmus, do you think there would be any value in adding these 3 links to the
PHP General Mailing List
and adding a little explanation of the
http://php.net/function syntax for searching
the php.net site would be a big help too.
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From: Johnson, Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:32 AM
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I have a question:
Does anyone know what PHP stands for?
It's not in any of the FAQ's I've looked at.
-Clayton
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Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: FAQ
and adding a little
Does anyone know what PHP stands for?
PHP = People Hate Perl.
No, that's just a joke, no flames please :)
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
Kirk
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Isn't it Personal Home Pages?
Chad
-Original Message-
From: Johnson, Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:55 AM
To: php
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: FAQ
Does anyone know what PHP stands for?
PHP = People Hate Perl.
No, that's just a joke, no flames please
I have a php book that says it stands for Personal Home Page, not sure if
that is correct or not...
dan
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From: Clayton Dukes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:53 AM
To: scott [gts]; php
Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: FAQ
I have a question:
Does
on 8/1/01 11:01 AM, Angerer, Chad at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
Isn't it Personal Home Pages?
I believe that was the original name. But now the first P represents an
acronym itself, as Kirk pointed out, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
So as I understand it, it's
Johnson, Kirk schrieb am Mittwoch, 1. August 2001, 17:55:03:
Does anyone know what PHP stands for?
PHP = People Hate Perl.
No, that's just a joke, no flames please :)
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
Which does not explain the php - stands for Personal Home Page,
IIRC - there is an interview
just like Apache comes from a patchy server.
That is a myth and it is not really right :)
You might want to search for an interview with Brian
Behlendorf in which he explains how the name was originally
conceived.
- Sascha Experience
On Wednesday, August 01, 2001 at 11:53 AM, Clayton Dukes said:
I have a question:
Does anyone know what PHP stands for?
It's not in any of the FAQ's I've looked at.
PHP is short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
...neat, huh? a recursive definition!
- Brian
Sascha Schumann schrieb am Mittwoch, 1. August 2001, 19:52:08:
just like Apache comes from a patchy server.
That is a myth and it is not really right :)
Anyway - it is a nice one, isn't it?
BTW, it is found on
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-04/behlendorf_02.html
I spent some time
You wrote:
I have a php book that says it stands for Personal Home Page, not sure
if
that is correct or not...
It's not. PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It's a
recursive acronym.
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