PHP is short for Personal Home Page. This acronym came off as a bit weak though, so they ended up saying that it means PHP Hypertext Preprocessor later on.
It appears to have started off as someone's simple C wrapper for rendering webpages and ended up being used for a lot more by a lot more people. This is why so many functions look like they have been plucked right out of C.
It appears to have started off as someone's simple C wrapper for rendering webpages and ended up being used for a lot more by a lot more people. This is why so many functions look like they have been plucked right out of C.