PHP

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PHP

  1. (international standards) ISO 4217 currency code for the Philippine peso.

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Etymology 1

Noun

PHP (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.

Proper noun

PHP

  1. Initialism of Primary Health Properties.
    • 2025 April 7, “UK's Assura gets deadline extension for potential PHP deal”, in Reuters‎:
      It has fielded seven proposals from PHP and a U.S. consortium of KKR (KKR.N), opens new tab and Stonepeak Partners in recent weeks.

Etymology 2

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

Proper noun

PHP

  1. (computer languages) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.
    • 2010 July 17, “PHP development comes to Google Android”, in Reuters‎:
      Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones.
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Noun

PHP (plural PHP-PHP)

  1. (slang) initialism of pemberi harapan palsu (“someone who makes false promises”, literally “giver of false hope”)
    Lu jangan PHP-in gua ya!!!
    Don't make false promises to me!!!
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