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title: "What is exactly the Full form of php?"  
description: "What is exactly the Full form of php?"  
author: "Pawan Shukla"  
published: 2017-12-08  
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category: "programming"  
tags: ["php", "php programming"]  
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# What is exactly the Full form of php?

What is exactly the [Full form](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30587/what-is-full-form-of-pcs) of [php](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/709/introduction-of-php)?

## Answers

### Answer by Uttam Misra

In 1995 Officially called **"Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)"**. This is the first use of the name "**PHP**” later it is changed to **“PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”, a recursive acronym.**


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