PHP
Translingual
Symbol
PHP
English
Etymology 1
Noun
PHP (uncountable)
- (pathology) Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
Derived terms
Proper noun
PHP
- Initialism of Primary Health Properties.
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
- (computer languages) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.
- 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.
Derived terms
- PHPer
- PHP-FPM
References
- History of PHP
- Announcement of PHP Tools 1.0
Further reading
Anagrams
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈha.pe/, [peˈha.pe]
Noun
PHP (plural PHP-PHP)