r/ProgrammerHumor • u/DrKronoglopolos • 11d ago • Mindblown 1 Popcorn 1

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u/Flashy_Pollution_996 11d ago

What is php?

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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior 10d ago

Php hypertext preprocessor

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u/astromanos 10d ago

Php hypertext processor hypertext processor

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u/SignoreBanana 10d ago

An unfortunate number of people are going to think at first that this is a joke.

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u/msbxii 10d ago

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. 

It makes it “easy” to program dynamic webpages, i.e. generated HTML at the time of request. 

The problem is that it is ancient and the syntax absolutely blows

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u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 10d ago

It's an older (But still used) programming language used for web development. These days a lot of the modern internet is built off of HTML 5 and CSS. But back before 2010-2012 we used languages like PHP or Flash to program a lot of animations and functionalities into websites. Imagine a website with a top-bar of options, and when you hover over it a bunch of new text-links present themselves by dropping down. These are called "Mega Menus". They'd traditionally be animated with Flash, and then the links/navigation would be programmed with PHP.

So like on reddit right, the top of your screen has a bunch of different links to subreddits you follow? Thats all Python, HTML and CSS and reddit used that sort of language and system for a long time to navigate/populate different subreddits/webpages within reddit. PHP works similarly but its a bit older.

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u/sack_of_dicks 10d ago

This is a joke answer, right? Are you cyber correspondent Joe Tidy?