Definitions

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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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Examples

  • It would be nifty to be able to search for a term like ‘php’ and find all the hashtags related to PHP stuff.

    WordCamp Organization Advice 2009

  • If you want category-3 to have a different sidebar, edit category-3. php and include the necessary HTML and PHP to generate your distinctive sidebar. include function, to include another file.

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Bluewolf 2010

  • I always tell people to go in via ftp and delete queue. php manually then set the correct folder permissions so the cache files can be purged by PHP via the ACP.

    phpBB.com blombardo 2010

  • If you are in charge of your own server, php. net has plenty of migration guides from upgrading from previous versions of PHP to the latest version of PHP, it's easy to do and doesn't take much time.

    phpBB.com 2010

  • No, you have to use get_cfg_var () instead. get_cfg_var returns you the setting, in php. ini or any other. ini file when PHP was started. ini_get will only return values that are registered by an extension or the PHP core.

    Planet MySQL 2010

  • The home. php does all the PHP funkyness whenever I need a fresh rendered version of my website to track an error, or adjust something.

    Planet PHP 2010

  • If you want category-3 to have a different sidebar, edit category-3. php and include the necessary HTML and PHP to generate your distinctive sidebar. include function, to include another file.

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Bluewolf 2010

  • Directory traversal vulnerability in download. php in Quickdev 4 PHP allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter.

    National Vulnerability Database nvd@nist.gov 2010

  • A: If the question is about wincache. php statistics script then yes - the data presented by that script is the same regardless of the PHP version.

    The Official Microsoft IIS Site RuslanY Blog 2010

  • The method that was used is executes the bench. php 5 times for each type of PHP compiler environment that was evaluated.

    Planet Geek 2010

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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