PHP

abbreviation for

, Digital Technology.

1. a scripting language used primarily for building dynamic web pages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of PHP¹

Coined in 1995 by PHP’s creator, Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf (1958–), originally standing for “Personal Home Page,” but later recast as standing for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”

Example Sentences

Facebook itself was originally built using open-source PHP.

From Slate

"An aggressive rate hike will maintain a 100bp rate differential with the Fed rate, which could help to stabilise the PHP against the USD amid a current account deficit that is currently in deep negative territory," noted Aris Dacanay, economist at HSBC.

From Reuters

It’s also known as a partial-hospitalization program or PHP.

From Seattle Times

Codex itself can speak more than a dozen coding languages, including JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift, and TypeScript.

From The Verge

In that case the sheriff said the means used to induce the accused, known only as PHP, into engaging in an exchange of messages amounted to "fraud".

From BBC