>From what I heard, the acronym originally stood for Personal Home Page, but
it kind of changed (unofficially?) to Hypertext Preprocessor.

I could be wrong

-----Original Message-----
From: Martín Marqués [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:08 PM
To: John Meyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.... :-)

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