Re: UKNM: Initials and meanings

[Vanessa McGreevy]

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Personal Home Page (original name for PHP server-side scripting language)

Personal Hypertext Protocol (alternate original name for PHP server-side

scripting language)

PHP Hypertext Protocol (server-side scripting language)


I'd usually recommend the fabulous-for-the-terminally-curious

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html but it's unusually reticent on

this

one.


Finally I asked our systems manager "Personal Home Page  (seriously), and

PHP

coders consider themselves to be: Pretty Hip People (seriously)"


For his own good, I'm not giving out his name...



Richard Johnson wrote:


> A question for those that know:

>

> what does PHP stand for?  I've heard "Personal Home Pages", which I think

is

> bollocks, and "P-something Hypertext Processor".  I can't even find a

> definition on the php sites.  I'm tending toward

"Pavel/Paul/Pascal/Paolo's

> Hypertext Preprocessor", as I believe it is a language developed either by

a

> Swiss or Israeli student.

>

> As I'm appearing on "The Weakest Link" next week, I NEED TO KNOW NOW!!!!

>

>       goodbye

>

> Richard

>

> =========================================

> Richard Johnson

> Business Development Manager

> MediaWorks Corporate Communications Ltd

> 11 Lisbon Square

> Leeds

> LS1 4LY

>

> mob:  077-20286861

> tel:  0113-399-3000

> fax:           3001

> ISDN:          3003

> www.mediaworksccl.com

> =========================================

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