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PHP
abbreviation for
, Digital Technology.
- a scripting language used primarily for building dynamic web pages.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of PHP1
Coined in 1995 by PHP’s creator, Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf (1958–), originally standing for “Personal Home Page,” but later recast as standing for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”
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