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| − | The first version of what came to be | + | The first version of what came to be known as PHP was created in 1995 by a man named Rasmus Lerdof. Rasmus, now an engineer at Yahoo!, needed something to make it easier to create content on his web site, something that would work well with HTML, yet give him power and flexibility beyond what HTML could offer him. Using Perl he created some technology that gave him what he needed and decided to call this technology "Personal Home Page". |
The name "Personal Home Page" was shortened to PHP and eventually renamed to represent "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" (the name is said to be recursive because the full name also includes the acronym "PHP" (an odd geeky joke that is common in technology circles when people have trouble naming things. GNU is another recursive name that represents "GNU's Not Unix"). | The name "Personal Home Page" was shortened to PHP and eventually renamed to represent "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" (the name is said to be recursive because the full name also includes the acronym "PHP" (an odd geeky joke that is common in technology circles when people have trouble naming things. GNU is another recursive name that represents "GNU's Not Unix"). | ||
Revision as of 20:07, 22 May 2007
Every once in a while a person faces a particular problem or requirement to which there appears to be no existing solution. Faced with they problem the person decides to create a solution to provide the functionality that they need.
Having developed the solution to their problem it then occurs to them that others may need to solve the same problem, and they decide to make their solution available to others who, in turn, can use and improve on it. Within a short period of time many people adopt the technology and work on it, adding new features they feel will be useful. The solution soon grows beyond expectations in terms of features and adopted by more people than the original creator could ever have imagined.
The history of PHP is just such a story.
The Creation of PHP
The first version of what came to be known as PHP was created in 1995 by a man named Rasmus Lerdof. Rasmus, now an engineer at Yahoo!, needed something to make it easier to create content on his web site, something that would work well with HTML, yet give him power and flexibility beyond what HTML could offer him. Using Perl he created some technology that gave him what he needed and decided to call this technology "Personal Home Page".
The name "Personal Home Page" was shortened to PHP and eventually renamed to represent "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" (the name is said to be recursive because the full name also includes the acronym "PHP" (an odd geeky joke that is common in technology circles when people have trouble naming things. GNU is another recursive name that represents "GNU's Not Unix").
