Translingual

Symbol

PHP

1. Philippine peso

Usage notes

This is a currency code used in the ISO 4217 standard.

English

Noun

PHP ‎(uncountable)

1. (healthcare) Initialism of pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.

Etymology 2

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 bacronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

Proper noun

PHP

1. (software, PHP) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.

See also

• PHP on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• History of PHP
• Announcement of PHP Tools 1.0