PHP

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PHP stands for:

PHP
Hypertext
Preprocessor

PHP is an open-source general-purpose scripting language that can be embedded into HTML. The code then runs on the server and creates or modifies the document before it's delivered to the web browser.

PHP pages contain HTML with embedded code that does "something".

Compare and contrast with JavaScript, where the code is usually executing in the web browser, or "client-side", although sometimes on the server as a more general programming language.