Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if "PHP is still relevant?" Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway... happy birthday!

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (8 children)

And I still don’t know what the first P stands for.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago (7 children)

If you go by the initial acronym, it means personal iirc

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (6 children)

stands for

not: stood for

[–] natecox@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The P in PHP stands for PHP.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay, that makes sense.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

But what does the first P there stand for?

[–] natecox@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh sorry, that P actually stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

"Recursive Backronym"

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for clearing that up.

“PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”.

But do you happen to know what the first P there stands for?

[–] dropcase@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Personal Home Page, so the whole thing written out is:

Personal Home Page Hypertext Preprocessor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

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