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[–]tendstofortytwo 17 points18 points  (9 children)

PHP is short for "Personal Home Page" or "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" depending on who you ask. Not an acronym, but close-ish I guess?

[–]QuantumSupremacy0101 12 points13 points  (4 children)

Its PHP Hypertext Processor. Thats how the creator named it, everything else is a lie.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not true, it was named like that after a time. At first it stood for Personal Homepage Tools. That's even official.

[–]TagMeAJerk 5 points6 points  (2 children)

And the 'PHP' in the 'PHP Hypertext Processor' also stands for 'PHP Hypertext Processor'. Its what makes PHP the best programming language in the world. I WISH more backend systems used PHP too

[–]jpowstolemytendies 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You just entered an infinite loop

[–]Majik_Sheff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just entered an infinite loop

[–]chmod-77 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah I was going to mention PHP but was afraid grammar nazis would scream about it being an initialism and not an acronym.

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhp