PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
An Overview Of PHP
PHP started as a quick Perl hack written by Rasmus Lerdof in late 1994. Over the next two to three years, it evolved into what we today know as PHP/FI 2.0. PHP/FI started to get a lot of users, but things didn't start flying until Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans suddenly came along with a new parser in the summer of 1997, leading to PHP 3.0. PHP 3.0 defined the syntax and semantics used in both versions 3 and 4.
PHP originally stood for 'Personal Home Pages' but the meaning was changed as the language matured. Now it has a complicated but more descriptive name of 'PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor', which is a recursive acronym, for version 4 of PHP. The engine was totally rewritten and became a super fast, and super easy language to use and learn. This new team, Zend.com, also the name of the engine is constantly working on PHP to improve the features, speed and stability. PHP 3, released in June 1998, gained rapid popularity, and is now used in Web-related applications by some of the most prominent organizations such as Mitsubishi, Redhat, Der Spiegel, MP3-Lycos, Ericsson and NASA. By the middle of 1997, PHP was being used on approximately 50,000 sites worldwide.
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