Q 01/05

Which programmer started PHP as a handful of small programs written to help maintain his own website?

A) Guido van Rossum

B) Rasmus Lerdorf

C) Brendan Eich

D) Bjarne Stroustrup

Answer · why

B) Rasmus Lerdorf

Rasmus Lerdorf never meant to invent a language: he has said he simply kept adding the next logical step to his web tools.

Q 02/05

PHP is now a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, but which phrase did its letters originally abbreviate?

A) Personal Home Page

B) Portable Hypertext Parser

C) Public Hosting Platform

D) Programmable HTML Pages

Answer · why

A) Personal Home Page

Personal Home Page Tools was the name of the first public release, which its author announced on a Usenet newsgroup in June 1995.

Q 03/05

PHP's mascot was born when Vincent Pontier noticed the letters PHP resembled which animal seen from the side?

A) Camel

B) Rhinoceros

C) Elephant

D) Gopher

Answer · why

C) Elephant

An elephant, nicknamed the elePHPant, has been PHP's mascot since 1998, and its plush-toy versions are now collectors' items, some of them extremely r...

Q 04/05

Which PHP content management system did Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little launch as a fork of b2/cafelog?

A) Drupal

B) Textpattern

C) Joomla

D) WordPress

Answer · why

D) WordPress

WordPress got its name from Christine Selleck Tremoulet, a friend of Mullenweg, and has grown from a blogging tool into software for shops, forums and...

Q 05/05

Which social network created HipHop, a tool that turned its PHP code into C++ to ease the load on its servers?

A) Facebook

B) Twitter

C) Myspace

D) LinkedIn

Answer · why

A) Facebook

Facebook retired HipHop in early 2013 in favour of HHVM, its own virtual machine, partly because the older tool was difficult to deploy.