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What Does PHP Stand For?

PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf and stood for Personal Home Page. He later combined his set of Perl tools with his Form Interpreter to create PHP/FI.

The parser was rewritten by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans to create PHP 3 and the name was changed to reflect the greater professionalism the tools had to the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"

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