English Explanatory Dictionary

PHP

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
name
  1. Initialism of Primary Health Properties.
name
  1. A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.

Word forms

PHP

Etymology

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

Derived words

pseudoPHP PHPer PHP-FPM
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