- Pretty Home Page (some people think this is the initial meaning of PHP)
- Professional Homepage Power
- Private Home Page
- Personal Home Page (the original name in the announcement "Announce: Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)")
- Phucking Home Page
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- PHP: Hyped Poo
- Parsed Hypertext Pre-Processor
- Post Hypertext Preprocessor
- Pre Hypertext Processor
- Personal HTML Processor
- Post-Harvest Processing
- Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity
- Poison, Hypnotize, and Petrify
- Paradaemonical Hellish Precipice
- Probable Hacked Page
- Pissed His Pants
- Penultimate Hop Pop
- Penultimate Hot Pot
- Pot Head Pixie
- Pretty Horrid Privacy
- Pretty Horrible Privacy (in the vein of Pretty Good Privacy)
- Pretty Horrible Product
- Pretty Horrendous Programming
- Pretty Horrible Perlclone
- People Hate Perl
- People Have Problems
- People Helping People
- Parents Helping Parents
- Potential Hookup Point
- Push Harder Please
- Please Have Patience
- Porn Hub Programming
- Pretty Hot Programmer
- Pretty Hot Pig
- Pretty Huge Penis
Zend in the clowns? || kuro5hin.org give some funny expansion for PHP: