Php

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Primary Health Properties. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "It has fielded seven proposals from PHP and a U.S. consortium of KKR (KKR.N), opens new tab and Stonepeak Partners in recent weeks."

  2. 2
    A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.

    "Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones."

Example

More examples

"PHP is a web programming language."

Etymology

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

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PHP-FPMscripting language

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