PHP

PHP (originally named "Personal Home Page" and now defined as the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.

It features dynamic typing, flexible string interpolation, garbage collection, a large standard library, built-in handling of sessions, cookies, forms, and file uploads, native integration with numerous databases, and, since PHP 8, additional improvements such as just-in-time compilation, union types, attributes, and enums.

PHP powers many open-source projects such as WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla, along with well-known platforms including Wikipedia, Etsy, Tumblr, Flickr, and Mailchimp. Facebook was originally built with PHP as well, and later transitioned to Hack, an optimized PHP dialect.

According to our data, PHP is the second most popular programming language on the web.
It has 68.4% of the programming language market share and is detected on 56.4% of all websites.

🏠 Website
- php.net #20,288
🔗 Links
- Wikipedia
- Awesome PHP
</> Source code
- GitHub
👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Community
- Mastodon Reddit Stack Overflow

📊 Rankings and Market Share

Programming Languages
- Rank: 2
- Market share: 68.4%
Platforms
- Rank: 1
- Market share: 82.2%

🏆 PHP Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Platforms category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Platforms category.

⚡ Sites Built With PHP

We have data on 1,874,601 websites that use the PHP programming language. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using PHP is facebook.com.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	facebook.com	#2	United States	English
2	wikipedia.org	#11	United States	English
3	bitly.com	#17		American English
4	p**nhub.com	#26	United States	English
5	vk.com	#39	Russia	English
6	instructure.com	#52	United States	English
7	tumblr.com	#78	United States	American English
8	wordpress.com	#83	United States	English
9	etsy.com	#93	United States	American English
10	washingtonpost.com	#104		English
11	erome.com	#109	United States	English
12	ep**ner.com	#118	Netherlands	English
13	epfindia.gov.in	#126	India	English
14	nypost.com	#140	United States	American English
15	espn.com	#141		English
16	en.wikipedia.org		United States	English
17	irs.gov	#183	United States	English
18	w3schools.com	#188		American English
19	go.com	#199		English
20	inven.co.kr	#218	Korea	Korean

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use PHP:

are located in the United States
have content in English
use the .com domain extension
fall into the Business category.

🌎 Countries📢 Languages⭐ TLDs🗃️ Domain Categories

Most of the sites using PHP are from the United States, Germany, and Japan.

Most PHP users speak English, German, or Spanish.

The PHP programming language is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.

The primary market segments for websites utilizing PHP include business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki.

🔢 PHP Versions

The most widespread version of PHP is 7.4, used by 32.2% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 12.8% of sites use PHP 8.1, and 11.8% use PHP 8.2.

7.4 32.2%
8.1 12.8%
8.2 11.8%
8.3 6.9%
5.6 6.8%
8.0 6.6%
7.3 4.9%
7.2 4%
5.4 3%
Other 11%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best PHP alternatives.

Rank	Name
1	JavaScript Austin, Texas, United States An interpreted programming language and a core technology of the web, alongside HTML and CSS, used to add interactivity and logic to websites and web applications.
5	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, designed to run across different systems through the Java Virtual Machine.
6	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, general-purpose programming language that is dynamically typed and widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and machine learning.
8	Go Mountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google for building efficient, scalable software and backend services.
21	Hack Menlo Park, California, United States A PHP-based programming language designed for the HHVM virtual machine and developed by Meta to build large-scale web applications with improved type safety.