What is PHP shortage for?

[Anon]

I've always wondered what PHP is shortage for. Private Homepage Pre-processor or what? =)

Thanks,
Martin

[jcleary]

Personal Home Page. Have a look at

http://www.cknow.com/ckinfo/acronyms/php.htm

[Anon]

It orginally stood for Professional Homepage Processor, but now it stands for:

"Pre Hypertext Processor"

[Anon]

Sorry Matt and John, you're both wrong!

PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page tools, but is now a recursive acronym meaning "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".

See http://php.net/manual/en/introduction.php

/Mike