What does PHP mean ?
So, PHP is an acronym, and its meaning has changed in time. There are more than expected usage of this name in various fields : this leads to funny situations where the word PHP has varying meaning. We collected them here.
Official name
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (Recursive acronym)
- Personal Home Page. Initial name, later abandonned.
Disambiguation
- Plantation Haut-Penja : a banana plantation in Cameroon
- Philippine Pesos : country official money of Philippine
- Partial hospitalization program : a rehabilitation program
- Parents Helping Parents : a ONG for families raising children with special needs
- PHP Pistol : a Croatian made pistol.
- PHP agency : People Helping People, US insurance company.
- PHP : Masonic title of Past High Priest
- Port Hope Panther, a hockey club in the ‘Provincial Junior Hockey League’ in canada
- Press Hit Play : Philipino music band
- Philip Airport : Airport code, North Dakota
- PHP Family : a Bangladeshi conglomerate
- PHP tandartsen : a dentist clinic in The Hague, on Prinz Hendrix Plein
- Pierre-Henri Philibert : French rear-admiral
- Peace and Happiness through Prosperity : Japanese company
- Per Hour Pricing : for billing
- Peripheral Hardware Processor : piece of hardware
- Physician Health Program : care provider for physicians
- Partial Hospitalisation Program : a mental health treatment, like IOP.
- Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project : a dam in Buthan
- Punjab Highway Patrol, in Pakistan
- Pánske Holičstvo Prešov, a man hairdresser in Slovakia
- Party Hire Productions, a wedding DJ company in Australia
- Andermatt-Plant Health Product, a biocontrol agriculture company
- PHP rent a car, car rental company
- Plasturgie Haute Performances, plastic company in France,
- Pineapple High Performance, Open level Volleyball Program in Indiana, USA,
- Primary Health Property, UK health insurance group
- Passive House Plus, Green Building Magazine
- Press Hit Play (formely Power House Philipines) : a P-band
- Partial Hospitalisation Program
- Printing House Press (New york, NY, USA)
- Partial Hospitalisation Program
- Pacific Historic Park
- Protection des Hautes Personalités (Protecting High-ranking Officers)
- Professional Housing Provider, association in the USA
- PHP security, security agency in the Netherlands
- Parallel History Project, with press releases
- People Helping People, a heartfelt Australian community movement built on kindness, connection, and everyday generosity
- Prolog Home Page: A Prolog engine’s website
- PHPGroup: PHP Group is a growing Bay Area full service brokerage dedicated to each client we serve.
- thePHPgroup: People Helping People Property Management
- Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion: The german experience
- What is your own PHP meaning? Tell us!
Unofficial names
- Pretty Hot People
- Pretty Hot Programmers
- Please Help Programmers
- People Harness Power
- Polish Happy Programmers
- Postponed Hello Party
- Please, help people
- Postmodern Horses Passionates
- Perhaps, Handsome Person
- Pirates Hate Playing
- Proudly Huggable Parents
- People Honouring Pride
- Partners Helping People
- Photo of a Hyperactive Person
- Par Hacer Paginas (to make pages, in Spanish)
- Parfois Horriblement Pratique (Sometimes, horribly convenient, in French)
- Pas Hyper Purist (Not Highly Pure, in French)
- Plein de Hack Possible (Full of Possible Hacks, in French)
- Pessoas, Histórias, Partilha (People, Stories, Sharing, in Portuguese)
- Philosophie Hat Priorität (Philosophy has priority, in German)
- Plezier Heeft Prioriteit (Pleasure has priorit, in Dutch)
- Personnes Heureuses et Paisibles (Happy and peaceful people, in French)
- 平和蓬勃, Píng Hé Péngbó (Peaceful and flourishing, in Mandarin Chinese)
- 朋友互助平台, Péngyǒu Hùzhù Píngtái (Friends Helping Each Other Platform, in Mandarin Chinese)
- 평화 화합 풍요, Pyeonghwa Hwahap Pungnyo (Peace, Harmony, Abundance, in Korean)
- 평화 희망 번영, Pyeonghwa Huimang Beonyeong (Peace, Hope, Prosperity, in Korean)
- प्रगति हिम्मत परिवार, Pragati Himmat Parivār (Progress, Courage, Family, in Devanagari Indian)
- प्रेम हर्ष पूर्णता, Prem Harṣa Pūrṇatā (Love, Joy, Fulfillment, in Devanagari Indian)
- परिवार हमेशा पहले, Parivār Hameśā Pahelē (Family Always First, in Devanagari Indian)
- प्रेम हृदय प्रकाश, Prema Hṛdaya Prakāśa (Love, Heart, Light, in Sanskrit)
- प्राण हर्ष पूर्णता, Prāṇa Harṣa Pūrṇatā (Life-force, Joy, Completeness, in Sanskrit)
- ཕན་འདོད་ཕུན་སུམ Phan Hdod Phun-sum (Benefit, Wish, Abundance, in Tibetan)
- ཕན་བདེ་ཕུན་སུམ, Phan Bde Phun-sum (Benefit, Happiness, Abundance/Perfection, in Tibetan)
- Persatuan Harapan Perdamaian (Unity, Hope, Peace, in Indonesian)
- … many more