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title: Interview with Dougal Campbell
date: 2013-04-09T07:17:23+00:00
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# Interview with Dougal Campbell

> It was in these early days that I first heard of this CGI script called PHP/FI. At this time, “PHP” stood for “Personal Home Pages” — it was only later that it was renamed to mean “PHP Hypertext Processor”. One of my first experiments was to use PHP and MySQL to create a database-driven news site for our customers, which I loosely modeled after Slashdot. It was my first blog-like system, pulling articles from the database newest-first, and displaying them ten-per-page. I didn’t even bother to make an article editing system, I just used PHPMyAdmin to add new entries to the database.

via [Dougal Campbell Interview](http://build.codepoet.com/2013/04/04/dougal-campbell-interview/)