What is PHP as "Personal Home Page" and "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor"?

What is PHP as "Personal Home Page" and "PHP Hy开发者_开发百科pertext Preprocessor"?

It is:

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Previously it was:

Personal Home Page

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The History of PHP

PHP was written in the C programming language by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 for use in monitoring his online resume and related personal information. For this reason, PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page". Lerdorf combined PHP with his own Form Interpreter, releasing the combination publicly as PHP/FI (generally referred to as PHP 2.0) on June 8, 1995. Two programmers, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rebuilt PHP's core, releasing the updated result as PHP/FI 2 in 1997. The acronym was formally changed to PHP: HyperText Preprocessor, at this time. (This is an example of a recursive acronym: where the acronym itself is in its own definition.)

php is called hypertext preprocessor as its libraries are already compiled.when any person request for any php page in the address bar of the browser that request is first sent to the server then server interpret php files and return back response in form of Html.

"Personal Home Page Tools" was the original name of PHP, now it is a recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". "PHP/FI" was also another name for PHP.