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    php/php-src

    The PHP Interpreter

    developer-tools
    C
    BSD-3-Clause
    41.8K stars
    8.5K forks
    1.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 8, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 18 days ago, with 230 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #77 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 25, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Implements the PHP interpreter enabling execution of PHP scripts for web and general-purpose programming.
    • Offers a fast, flexible, and pragmatic scripting engine widely supported across platforms and web servers.
    • Use for developing dynamic websites and web applications with server-side scripting.
    • Use for embedding scripting capabilities into existing C applications requiring PHP integration.
    • Use for contributing to or customizing the PHP language core and extensions by building from source.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    BSD 3-Clause

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

    PHP is distributed under the Modified BSD License (SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause).

    The PHP manual is available at php.net/docs.

    Excerpt from the php/php-src README on GitHub (BSD-3-Clause license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Oct 24: +403

    +601 stars over 17 days across 4 snapshot days; best day +403 on Oct 24.

    Forks

    8.5K+213

    Open issues

    2.3K+92

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