PHP is one of the most widley used programming languages in the online/web development world, and has been for a long time now. This article aims to give you a little history behind PHP, how it started, and how it got to where it is now.

What is PHP?

Ok, first and foremost - what is PHP?

PHP is best described by the creators themselves:

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

PHP, the acronym, is defined as PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (it is a recursive acronym).