Personal Home Page or Hyper Text Preprocessor

Python

I thought that PHP was a recursive acronym for Hyper Text Prprocessor - well at least thats what Ive read but the other day I read something saying that PHP stands for Personal Home Page or at least used to when it was first created.

Is this true?

Chroder

PHP is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (you missed the bit that made it recursive ). And yes, PHP used to stand for Personal Home Page.

Nuvo

PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
It's a recursive acronym, meaning the acronym is featured within itself.
PHP did stand for Personal HomePages, but it changed.
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, who now heads the W3C (The guy who designed the language should know how to use it better than anyone else, which is why you should make compliant code).
XHTML stands for eXstensible HyperText Markup Language, and it's a combination of HTML and XML.
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language and is useful for many things from RSS feeds to desktop application skinning and translation.
ASP stands for Active Server Pages and is Microsoft's web scripting platform.
Rather than just being one set language, ASP is actually a set of languages that have server-side interpreters, like C++, C#, Delphi and Visual BASIC.
CFML stands for ColdFusion Markup Language, and is the language used for Macromedia \ Adobe's server-side interpreter, Coldfusion.
I hope that helped.

martian2k4

Yes, used to stand for Personal Home page and was a set of perl scripts that were used to track users and log info about them

Python

that clears that up then
Thanks

xeno

Nuvo wrote:

PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
It's a recursive acronym, meaning the acronym is featured within itself.
PHP did stand for Personal HomePages, but it changed.
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, who now heads the W3C (The guy who designed the language should know how to use it better than anyone else, which is why you should make compliant code).
XHTML stands for eXstensible HyperText Markup Language, and it's a combination of HTML and XML.
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language and is useful for many things from RSS feeds to desktop application skinning and translation.
ASP stands for Active Server Pages and is Microsoft's web scripting platform.
Rather than just being one set language, ASP is actually a set of languages that have server-side interpreters, like C++, C#, Delphi and Visual BASIC.
CFML stands for ColdFusion Markup Language, and is the language used for Macromedia \ Adobe's server-side interpreter, Coldfusion.
I hope that helped.

You forgot PERL and CGI

Nuvo

SSI is ServerSide Includes.
CGI is Common Gateway Interface.
Perl is the correct spelling as this quote from the FAQ on Perl.com shows:

But never write "PERL", because perl isn't really an acronym, apocryphal folklore and post-facto expansions notwithstanding.

Perl was called Perl because there was already a product available called Pearl.
Perl.org thinks Perl is the most widely used web development language because of it's text manipulation abilities and such, but this cannot be fully proven and I'm pretty sure I see more sites which use PHP than Perl (PHP being easier to write, faster and pretty powerful).
Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, but the "and" part was left out for reasons I already mentioned.
CSS is Cascading Style Sheets.
SQL is Structured Query Language.
Ruby should be shot.