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  • A trademark for a widely used scripting language designed for producing dynamic webpages.

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  • noun Philippine peso
  • initialism healthcare Initialism of pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.
  • proper noun software A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.

Etymologies

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Originally an Initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995; later inherited by other software built to implement similar functionality, with the new recursive expansion PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

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  • PHP is a server site scripting language mostly used to develop dynamic and extensible web applications.

    Regards,

    PHP TUTORS

    April 12, 2013