PHP

American  

abbreviation

Digital Technology.

1. a scripting language used primarily for building dynamic web pages.

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Etymology

Origin of PHP

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”

Example Sentences

USD/PHP is down 0.1% at 58.75 while USD/JPY is little changed at 156.27 and AUD/USD is flat at 0.6534.

From The Wall Street Journal

Facebook itself was originally built using open-source PHP.

From Slate

"An aggressive rate hike will maintain a 100bp rate differential with the Fed rate, which could help to stabilise the PHP against the USD amid a current account deficit that is currently in deep negative territory," noted Aris Dacanay, economist at HSBC.

From Reuters

It’s also known as a partial-hospitalization program or PHP.

From Seattle Times

Codex itself can speak more than a dozen coding languages, including JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift, and TypeScript.

From The Verge