PHP

PHP

See also: .php and РНР

Translingual

Symbol

PHP

  1. (international standards) ISO 4217 currency code for the Philippine peso.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

PHP (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
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Proper noun

PHP

  1. Initialism of Primary Health Properties.
    • 2025 April 7, “UK's Assura gets deadline extension for potential PHP deal”, in Reuters[1]:
      It has fielded seven proposals from PHP and a U.S. consortium of KKR (KKR.N), opens new tab and Stonepeak Partners in recent weeks.

Etymology 2

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.

Proper noun

PHP

  1. (computer languages) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.
    • 2010 July 17, “PHP development comes to Google Android”, in Reuters[2]:
      Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones.
    • 2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian[3], archived from the original on 27 June 2022:
      The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.
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Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈha.pe/, [peˈha.pe]

Noun

PHP (plural PHP-PHP)

  1. (slang) initialism of pemberi harapan palsu (someone who makes false promises, literally giver of false hope)
    Lu jangan PHP-in gua ya!!!
    Don't make false promises to me!!!