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== Welcome to PHP == | == Welcome to PHP == | ||
PHP started off as a collection of Perl scripts used to aid in the maintaining of personal home pages. | PHP started off as a collection of Perl scripts used to aid in the maintaining of personal home pages. Hence, it originally stood for "Personal Home Page." However, the language has grown into a huge open source initiative, used by thousands of amateur and professional programmers world wide. It now is officially known as "PHP: Hypertext Preprocesor," which is a recursive acronym (For some strange reason, open source programmers seem to love recursive acronyms). | ||
The reason it is known as a preprocessor and not mearly as a processor, is due to the fact that the php files are sent by the webserver to the PHP preprocessor to be processed. the resulting HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), is then sent across the internet to the web browser requesting the php page. | The reason it is known as a preprocessor and not mearly as a processor, is due to the fact that the php files are sent by the webserver to the PHP preprocessor to be processed. the resulting HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), is then sent across the internet to the web browser requesting the php page. | ||