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- A trademark for a widely used scripting language designed for producing dynamic webpages.
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- noun Philippine
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scripting language widely used to writeWeb 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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phptutors commented on the word PHP
PHP is a server site scripting language mostly used to develop dynamic and extensible web applications.
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PHP TUTORS
April 12, 2013