That's the truth. PHP started out as a set of "Personal Home Page tools"
(1st version), then PHP/FI (PHP + form interpretter [or something similar -
I'm not sure 'form interpretter' is completely correct, but that was
basically the functionality of the FI portion])... anyway, then sometime
during PHP3/4 they opted to change it to Hypertext Preprocessor... it
wasn't really just "personal home page tools" anymore ;)
Anyway, I only know what I read - I got to the scene to late to actually
know this stuff first hand... hope this helps... and if someone who really
was on the scene back then cares to comment/correct me, please do ;)
--Toby
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:20 PM
Subject: [PHP] What "PHP" Stands For....
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> From the preface of the manual:
>
> 'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...'
>
> I frankly don't beleive that "PHP" started life as a recursively
> defined acronym - I remember reading somewhere that it stood for
> "Personal Home Page" which makes more sense to me.
>
> Anybody know the truth?
>
> Regs
>
> Brian White
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