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title: "What does PHP mean ?"
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# What does PHP mean ?

# 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](https://www.php.net) (Recursive acronym)
- [Personal Home Page](https://www.php.net). Initial name, later abandonned.

## Disambiguation

- **[Plantation Haut-Penja](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantations_du_Haut-Penja) **: a banana plantation in Cameroon
- [**Philippine Pesos**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_peso) : country official money of Philippine
- [**Partial hospitalization program**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_hospitalization) : a rehabilitation program
- [**Parents Helping Parents**](https://www.php.com/) : a ONG for families raising children with special needs
- **[PHP Pistol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_pistol)** : a Croatian made pistol.
- [**PHP agency**](https://phpagency.com/) : People Helping People, US insurance company.
- PHP : Masonic title of **Past High Priest**
- [**Port Hope Panther**,](https://porthopepanthers.pjhlon.hockeytech.com/) a hockey club in the 'Provincial Junior Hockey League' in canada
- **[Press Hit Play](https://ppop.fandom.com/wiki/Press_Hit_Play)** : Philipino music band
- [**Philip Airport**](https://www.air-port-codes.com/airport-info/PHP/) : Airport code, North Dakota
- [**PHP Family**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_Family) : a Bangladeshi conglomerate
- **[PHP tandartsen](https://maps.app.goo.gl/5zWm4ChqtGbB7QsP9)** : a dentist clinic in The Hague, on Prinz Hendrix Plein
- **[Pierre-Henri Philibert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Henri_Philibert) **: French rear-admiral
- **[Peace and Happiness through Prosperity](https://www.php.co.jp/company/)** : Japanese company
- **Per Hour Pricing** : for billing
- **Peripheral Hardware Processor** : piece of hardware
- **[Physician Health Program](https://www.physicianhealth.com/) **: care provider for physicians
- **[Partial Hospitalisation Program](https://www.charliehealth.com/post/php-vs-iop)** : a mental health treatment, like IOP.
- **[Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project](https://www.phpa1.gov.bt/home-2/) :** a dam in Buthan
- **[Punjab Highway Patrol](https://www.punjabpolice.gov.pk/highwaypatrol),** in Pakistan
- **[Pánske Holičstvo Prešov](https://www.holicstvopresov.sk/)**, a man hairdresser in Slovakia
- [**Party Hire Productions**](https://partyhireproductions.com.au/), a wedding DJ company in Australia
- **[Andermatt-Plant Health Product](https://andermatt-php.co.za/about/)**, a biocontrol agriculture company
- [**PHP rent a car**](https://www.en.phprentacar.ro/), car rental company
- [**Plasturgie Haute Performances,**](https://www.php-plast.com/) plastic company in France,
- **[Pineapple High Performance](https://pineapplehp.com/)**, Open level Volleyball Program in Indiana, USA,
- **[Primary Health Property](https://www.phpgroup.co.uk/)**, UK health insurance group
- **[Passive House Plus](https://passivehouseplus.co.uk/)**, Green Building Magazine
- **[Press Hit Play](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOApPLz1LNMdClrSzXOM6fw)** (formely Power House Philipines) : a P-band
- **[Partial Hospitalisation Program](https://apibhs.com/2025/01/25/what-is-a-partial-hospitalization-program-and-who-is-it-for)**
- **[Printing House Press](https://phpny.com/)** (New york, NY, USA)
- [**Partial Hospitalisation Program**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_hospitalization)
- [**Pacific Historic Park**](https://www.pacifichistoricparks.org/)
- [**Protection des Hautes Personalités**](https://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/gendinfo/dossiers/gign-3.0/les-php-protecteurs-de-hautes-personnalites) (Protecting High-ranking Officers)
- [**Professional Housing Provider,**](https://nationalreia.org/education/php/) association in the USA
- **[PHP security](https://www.phpsecurity.nl/)**, security agency in the Netherlands
- [**Parallel History Project**](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB31/press.html), with press releases
- **[People Helping People](https://www.phpfoundation.org.au/)**, a heartfelt Australian community movement built on kindness, connection, and everyday generosity
- **[Prolog Home Page](https://php.energy/)**: A Prolog engine's website
- [**PHPGroup**](https://phpgroup.com/): PHP Group is a growing Bay Area full service brokerage dedicated to each client we serve.
- [**thePHPgroup**](https://thephpgroup.com/): People Helping People Property Management
- [**Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion**](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Percutaneous-Hepatic-Perfusion-(PHP)-with-Melphalan-Dewald-Warnke/9732ab11e942c2fc5b8515d8defd28e11e3da3f2): The german experience
- What is your own PHP meaning? **[Tell us!](https://bsky.app/profile/dseguy.bsky.social) **

## 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

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