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Page Tools, Now Stands For PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Which The PHP FAQ

PHP is a script language used primarily on Linux web servers that executes on the server. PHP was originally derived from Personal Home Page Tools and now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology, with PHP scripts embedded within web pages alongside HTML. Before sending the page to a requesting user, the web server interprets and performs operations in the PHP script.

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Page Tools, Now Stands For PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Which The PHP FAQ

PHP is a script language used primarily on Linux web servers that executes on the server. PHP was originally derived from Personal Home Page Tools and now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology, with PHP scripts embedded within web pages alongside HTML. Before sending the page to a requesting user, the web server interprets and performs operations in the PHP script.

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PHP-PHP is a script language and interpreter that is freely available and used

primarily on Linux Web servers. PHP, originally derived from Personal Home
Page Tools, now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor which the PHP FAQ
describes as a "recursive acronym." PHP executes on the server, while a
comparable alternative, JavaScript, executes on the client. PHP is an alternative to
Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology. As with ASP, the PHP script is
embedded within a Web page along with its HTML. Before the page is sent to a
user that has requested it, the Web server calls PHP to interpret and perform the
operations called for in the PHP script.

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