![]() Some tech journalists used to call PHP “the open source ASP” because its functionality is similar to that of the Microsoft product-although this formulation was misleading, as PHP was developed before ASP. Proprietary products in this niche are Microsoft’s Active Server Pages, Macromedia’s ColdFusion, and Sun’s Java Server Pages. PHP is a server-side scripting language, which can be embedded in HTML or used as a standalone binary (although the former use is much more common). PHP is currently in its fifth major rewrite, called PHP5 or just plain PHP. But as it expanded in scope, a new and more appropriate (albeit GNU-ishly recursive) name was selected by community vote. ![]() The product was originally named Personal Home Page Tools, and many people still think that’s what the acronym stands for. PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. ![]() PHP is the Web development language written by and for Web developers. ![]()
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