PHP was written in the C programming
language by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 for
use in monitoring his online resume
and related personal information. For
this reason,PHP originally stood for
“Personal Home Page“. Lerdorf combined
PHP with his own Form Interpreter,
releasing the combination publicly as
PHP/FI (generally referred to as PHP
2.0) on June 8,1995. Two programmers,Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans,rebuilt
PHP’s core,releasing the updated
result as PHP/FI 2 in 1997. The
acronym was formally changed to PHP: HyperText Preprocessor,at this time. (This is an example of a recursive acronym: where the acronym itself is in its own definition.)
