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Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if “PHP is still relevant?” Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway… happy birthday!
Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if “PHP is still relevant?” Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway… happy birthday!
And I still don’t know what the first P stands for.
If you go by the initial acronym, it means personal iirc
stands for
not: stood for
The P in PHP stands for PHP.
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Okay, that makes sense.
But what does the first P there stand for?
Oh sorry, that P actually stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”.
Thank you for clearing that up.
But do you happen to know what the first P there stands for?
Personal Home Page, so the whole thing written out is:
Personal Home Page Hypertext Preprocessor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
“Recursive Backronym”