We’re happy and proud to announce the creation of The PHP Foundation – a non-profit organization to support, promote, and advance the PHP language 🎉
The PHP Foundation
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The PHP Foundation
@ThePHPF
We support, promote, and advance the PHP language. 💜🐘
#ThePHPFoundation
Donate at opencollective.com/phpfoundation
Joined November 2021
- PHP 8.3 Released! 💜 thephp.foundation/blog/2023/11/2…
GIF - The results are in! The winner of the PHP 8.5 Release Page Design Contest is @nunowar 🏆🎉 Big thanks to everyone who submitted their ideas, and to @phpstorm and @rectorphp for sponsoring the prizes 🙌 See the full results and next steps: thephp.foundation/blog/2025/11/0…
- In 2025, @automattic, a founding member of The PHP Foundation, is increasing its contribution to $250,000—a 2.5x increase! We are very grateful for their ongoing support and firm commitment to the PHP community. Thank you, @automattic and @WordPress!
- PHP 8.4 is Now Released! 🔹 Property hooks 🔹 Asymmetric visibility 🔹 New DOM features and HTML5 support 🔹 Object API for BCMath 🔹 new MyClass()->method() without parentheses and a whole lot more!
- Big news for the PHP community: we kicked off work on the official PHP MCP SDK! Built in partnership with @AnthropicAI MCP team + @symfony team, this SDK will be framework-agnostic, production-ready, and open to the whole PHP ecosystem.
- Happy birthday, PHP! 💜🐘🎉Happy birthday, @official_php! Cheers to the amazing community of PHP developers for all the years of commitment! We'd love to hear about the features of PHP that are pivotal in your daily coding life – share them down below. #PHP29
00:00 - FrankenPHP is now officially supported by The PHP Foundation The project repository will be moved to the @official_php organisation on GitHub.
- We’ve just updated the downloads page on @official_php website. Would love your feedback to help make it better!🙏
- Announcing the pre-release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) 🎉 Think of it as Composer for PHP extensions: they’re distributed via @packagist and handled similar to regular PHP packages. Check it out and share your feedback 🐘💜
- PHP Foundation Update, March 2022 opencollective.com/phpfoundation/… Our initial group of sponsored core developers started today! Please welcome @arnaud_lb, @derickr, @Girgias, @IlijaTovilo, @kocsismate90, Jakub Zelenka 🎉 We can't wait to see what they do.
- We've been discussing the future of PECL and its website – the current tools for installing PHP extensions. The code is old and hard to maintain. And we want to bring a more modern method of installing things. 📝 @derickr is kicking off with a requirements document:
- Say goodbye to parse_url() headaches! 🥳 PHP 8.5 is introducing a new URI Extension with standards-compliant (RFC 3986 & WHATWG) and secure URL parsing. It provides a clean API and lets you easily modify URI components. Learn more 👇
- 📢 We just published a deep dive on compile-time-only generics and we need your feedback! This isn’t "full generics". It’s a scoped, performance-friendly approach focused on interfaces and abstract classes. Is this the right direction for PHP?
