Interesting Facts About PHP

Thinking of PHP development? Here are few Interesting facts about PHP that every PHP Developer must know.

  1. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page.
  2. PHP which is now officially known as ‘Hypertext Preprocessor’ was launched in the year 1995.
  3. Initially written as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) in ‘C’ (1994).
  4. PHP was primitively designed to replace a set of Perl scripts to maintain Personal Home Pages (also known as PHP).
  5. Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. He wrote the original Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries.