acronym

[chrismiceli]

who made php's acronym. Could someone make sense to me how hypertext preprocessor = php?

[missing-score]

I dunno, but I would say:

hypertext preprocessor:

pre-hypertext-processor

Cos: pph would sound awful, hpp would be a sauce, so PHP was the only option?

I have never actually seen anything about this. :)

[Ökii]

Rasmus Lerdorf (all hail) when he first wrote the php language as a backend fo his CV and such decided to call it

Personal Home Pages

which is where the PHP truely comes from.

It spent a little while as PHP FI (form interpreter) and eventually evolved to the recursive acronym of php: hypertext preprocessor.

[raf]

Could someone make sense to me how hypertext preprocessor = php

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote his first parser and some small tools in 1994 under the name "Personal Home Page Tools". Initially this parser was ment for his own personal home page. It came available for others making personal home pages as PHP (you'll be smart enough to figure out what it stood for). Cause its use gradually shifted to developping more professional app's, the Personal Home Page didn't quite cover it any more, so it shifted (around 1997?) to "PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor". Hence, still PHP.
(Well, that's what the book says.)

[missing-score]

Wow, I didnt know that. I do now!

Thanks guys. (All Hail!)

[l3vi]

I didnt know that either. Know I only have yet 2 learn the history of CSS!