PHP
nounEtymology 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.
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Informal A PHP script.
- At first, I had the PHPs on the university host requesting the data from MySQL on my ISP's host.2002 December 11, Amittai Aviram, “Moving files between hosts”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026:
- Once I get this, I am not able to run a PHP that uses those include files again.2006 March 26, Jim Michaels, “mysql_connect() losing connections from cmd line”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026:
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- Actually, my site goes to index.php and then index.php digs around in other PHPs and MySQL.2007 January 31, Nu, “How do I limit my number of PHP hits per second?”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026: