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Building and connecting the PHP community. Want to learn PHP? Check out: - https://phptutorial.net - https://phptherightway.com Join us at discord.phpc.social, and you can also follow me at phpc.social/@phpc Our website is https://phpcommunity.org

Screenshot of a post on Mastodon. It reads, “A #php interview with Crell and Girgias !!!!”
Impressed with how amazing @naderman is doing presenting at the #PHPverse event. Great questions, great pacing.
Core memories thinking of PHP: - PhpMyAdmin and phpBB(2) - Using an index.php that includes another script based on a query param. To not allow direct execution of the script, the index.php would define a constant and the script check for its existence. - register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc and how long it took to eventually get it deprecated. #php #JetBrainsPHPverse2025
Happy 30th birthday, #PHP! 🎂
I started toying around with the web way back in school and soon started breaking and debugging my first instance of phpBB2, which I hosted on an ad-based PHP hoster. This language taught me cowboy debugging, and it was so much fun! Fast forward: My knowledge of PHP and the experience I mostly gained from dissecting OpenSource projects landed me my first job at an agency, and it still pays my rent to this day. Thank you, PHP! #30YearsOfPHP
@phpc using PHP at my day job, it's getting better and better. Each version makes it more pleasant to use. Good work PHP team 👏👏😍 #tuleap
#30YearsOfPHP I built my first PHP site 20 years ago; I didn't select from a list of languages, I just used what appeared to be installed on a shared host that I was able to set up (for about £3pm) My first site let friends send messages and share photos - seems similar to another PHP project that got popular about the same time, but I didn't take over the world. Since then it's let me start 2 businesses, and travel around the world speaking at conferences. Truly a life-changing language!
I owe my entire career to this language. I landed my first engineering role from just going to a PHP Meetup. Meetups and then conferences steered me into Developer Relations. I've made friends all over the world. I've watched it go from an underperforming, language perceived as legacy into a blazing fast, top choice for development due to crazy levels of innovation. #30YearsOfPHP
I started my #PHP journey in 2006 after realising that I was not going to be a rockstar. I developed a local gig-listing website that scraped gigs from myspace: https://web.archive.org/web/20060614214346/http://www.bathgigs.co.uk/ I had a full time job 6 months later! #30yearsofphp
@phpc I was pumped to add PHP to my first website in my teens and create reusable menus (later leading up to adding security vulnerabilities before learning how to sanitize database inputs 🙃). I had fun modding phpBB in the aughts (it’s still around and I’ve come back around to it). I don’t think I quite expected to build a career upon it (shout out to Drupal (and some Joomla along the way in freelance work). And here I am, maintaining Wordpress sites too. #PHP #phpBB #Drupal #Joomla #Wordpress
PHP has just turned 30. I've used it for most of its existence (since PHP 3) and for all of my career. I make a reasonably comfort living from writing it. Most of the criticisms I hear are things that were issues in PHP 5 and are not relevant to modern PHP (though horrible legacy code still exists and I work with it), or are looking down on the language because it's accessible to newbies. Like C, it's not perfect, but it's doing something right given how widespread it is. #30YearsOfPHP #php
Thank you #php for all you did in the past years and I hope we can stay together for at least another 10 years. Happy birthday #30YearsOfPHP You brought me many friends, jobs and so much more!
I was 14 when I started with php. 22 years ago, when I build my first website. I used a book to learn #php. I came across a website pfz.nl a former Dutch community. And started helping with their conference a few years later. My first contact with people like @Skoop, @sebastian @shochdoerfer and @mvriel and many more. All of them are friendly, willing to help. I joined the @phpdoc project. And look at me now. I write code, used by thousands of people. #php pays my bills. #30YearsOfPHP
Happy 30th Birthday #PHP! 🎉 I'm with you since you were around 10 and in version 4. I learned a lot from you and you're still the main and most important base of my income. Stay strong!
Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in #30YearsOfPHP I've been around since the early days, contributing only a bit to the #PHP core itself, but mainly as a developer for the #pear repository, at conferences (#LinuxTag, #PHPConference) or projects like #TYPO3. It's great to see the language evolve, how clean and versatile components and libraries have become. It helped shape the internet, with a lot of (also excellent) languages along the way. Thanks for a lot of great friends! 🥰
30 years ago, Rasmus unleashed PHP upon the world. A very short time later, a 21 year old me found PHP3 and fell in love immediately. By 2002, I was submitting my first patches, within weeks I had direct commit karma. By 2006 I was speaking at conferences, writing a book on extensions, and Rasmus was personally recommending me for jobs. I've seen PHP grow through most of its life. I've seen the lives of our community grow and change and been changed by it in return. #30YearsOfPHP 🧵(1/2)
I recently joined a startup. Nearly the entire code base was build by a single person over 3 years, who was learning programming as he went. Yep, he used #PHP. Is it good code? Not by a long shot, though I've definitely seen worse. But it *works*, runs, and is making money. Now we can work to make it better, and make even more money. *That* is why PHP is so popular, and still so relevant after #30YearsOfPHP. It's both a blessing and a curse, at times, but PHP lets people just get sh*t done.
#php gave me a career when I wasn't sure where I wanted to go. It gave me a community of friends all over the world. I've built some amazing things because of PHP, and even though Im doing Python these days PHP is still my language of my choice. It truly has had an amazing impact on my life. Happy birthday PHP!
If PHP didn't exist, I'm sure I would have chosen another language to focus on instead, but who knows whether I would have met all the same great people I have over the years. Happy 30th birthday, PHP!
I’m 50 years old, I’ve been using #PHP pretty much since it was released. It’s paid my mortgage over that time and given me a career that’s put my kids through uni. Thanks to everyone that makes #PHP what it is.
The PHP programming language turns 30 today. It was one of the earliest programming languages I learned (after Perl) and the one I’ve use for the longest. From WordPress, which employed me and powered a speaking a teaching part of my life, to Laravel which is the base of most of my projects now, PHP has been a huge part of my career and hobbiest web development. Through those projects, I’ve made many long lasting friendships. Happy Birthday PHP! #30yearsofphp #php #wordpress #laravel
In the summer of 2008, I was at a small agency doing video work. When our "webmaster" left, my boss asked if I could "make heads or tails of this #PHP". Smug from years of writing #BASIC on a TI-83+, I decided to give it a shot and ended up changing my career trajectory. Happy 30th, PHP! You're not the only language, but you're the one I always come back to 😁
PHP is 30. What a ride. Its path was not straight forward as wasn't mine. I hobby coded (script kiddie) since 2000. I made a career in 2011 when i was at a very low point in my life. It taught me self worth again, i got to know a lot of interesting people and seen PHP run small scripts to huge retail operations. Without PHP i would not be where i am today. Also you are basically a necromancer when coding PHP. You can not beat that! #PHP
I think I started playing with #PHP as a student in 1998. It allowed me to realize all sorts of crazy projects over the years, personal and small business. I’m still happily using it in the enterprise for critical infrastructure today. Thanks for everything! ❤️❤️❤️ #30YearsOfPHP
@phpc I remember being in like in the half of my collegue education hearing about the web development i hearing about PHP and their "crazy" sintax. Still is the easiest way to develop something simple in the web for me. It was surprised when some people contacted me like 3 years ago to work in PHP because i hadn't a lot of professional experience with it. One of the best job i had.
@otsch Started about 13 years ago with an image-gallery written in #php and some inline html. I need to dig up the old source code 😄
@phpc #php is the easiest to use and it is very stable. Very easy to upgrade! Very nice as you spend more time developing than upgrading. Been using it for 24 years and it's been one of the great things in my life as programming brings me joy :)
@phpc 24 years ago we began to write the website for our Ultima Online game server in PHP. It allowed us to very easily show SQL-based content. The code was upgraded during the years from PHP-version to PHP-version, and it is still running and used by our players today! Recently I wrote a small web backend for my job in PHP. It took around 100 lines of code to achieve the same that "more modern" languages would require 1000 lines and a dozen external modules for. Thank you PHP! #30YearsOfPHP
I have a vocation that enabled me to pay off my student loans and move my family to Ireland and buy a home. Thanks for 17+ good years, PHP.
#PHP is for the web. What brought me to using PHP in 1996 was creating interactive web pages for the educational software company I worked at. I got involved with the project when it didn't yet do what I needed. It exploded in use because it made it really easy to build for the web in a way that no other languages ever have. It didn't start out as a sophisticated programming language, but it is now. And it's still fantastic for the web. #30YearsOfPHP
30 years of #PHP - congrats to the language and the amazing community surrounding it! You gave me a lot ❤️
#PHP cumple 30 años. Y yo llevo 22 años programando en PHP y 18 años trabajando en remoto. Telita.
@phpc In #php I have found the perfect language to realise all my ideas quickly and yet professionally. I am certain that this would not be possible in this form with any other language.
@phpc Got into programming with 14 with my first book about HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL and Perl. Didn't really understand Perl, but learned the rest. Played around with my own Woltlab Burning Board at that time. Made it my career 5 years later and haven't looked back. #php #30YearsOfPHP
Wow, #php is 30 years old? I started to use it in 1997, then went on to send in patches in 1998, and eventually became a core contributor. It was definitely a boon for my career and I met so many great people through the conferences and user groups. Cheers to everyone!
@phpc I started my career at a company where people frowned upon PHP. Years later, I worked at a company that had PHP at its heart, but wanted to move away from it. Since following @ramsey I'm almost envious of not having worked with PHP. It feels like a missed opportunity.
Happy 30th Birthday, PHP. It is my favorite programming language. I am still seeking a FT job working with it. New York, USA, or remote. #php #FediHire
Happy 30th birthday to #PHP! I recall writing my first code back in the 3.x days but I really got going in 2006 and have been coding professionally in the language ever since. I have been around for the birth of Symfony, Laravel, Composer, and countless other projects and I can't wait to see what the next 30 years brings.
🎂 Thirty years ago today, PHP was released! How time has flown. Here's to thirty more great years! 🎉 #PHP #30YearsOfPHP
Today is a very special day for me… https://andreas.heigl.org/2025/06/08/happy-birthday-php/
Fittingly, with PHP's birthday today, we will have the kick-off meeting of the #PHP8_5 release managers today. Excited to give back to php-src in this way as well over the next couple of years. Thankful to @Tideways for supporting PHP through contributions, financially and supporting me in doing this.
Happy birthday #PHP. It's been 20 years of working with PHP for me. 15 of those where it's been the main language at the company I worked for. So many stories, shared moments at conferences, the friends made along the way, and so many features shipped. From open-source browser games, to social networks, medical applications and performance tooling to open-source ecosystem tooling contributions. Not a home at the moment, so I don't have a picture of the full heard today:
Happy birthday #PHP 30 years, building the most beautiful cathedral on the web, with the help of the old guard and the new waves. #PHP is the way of life
Congrats for reaching 30 years, #PHP 🎉, but I'm not in a mood for celebrations.
Happy Birthday,#PHP!
PHP gibt es heute seit 30 Jahren. Am 17. Juni findet die Party statt: https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/ #phpverse #php30anniversary
30 years of PHP and I've published my thoughts in the @bitexpert blog: https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/30-years-of-php #bitExpert #PHP #Community
Happy Birthday,#PHP! To another 30 years of being dead 😁 And a big Thank You to everyone that helped make it a great language with an awesome community! And an even bigger Thank You for connecting me with so many amazing friends all over the world! 🎉🎂
30 years of #PHP, 25 years of #PHPUnit: In my new article, I share how we have changed the web together. https://thephp.cc/articles/30-years-php-25-years-phpunit?ref=mastodon
Here is the material I used for my "So you think you know #PHPUnit?" at #IntPHPCon today: https://thephp.cc/presentations/so-you-think-you-know-phpunit
On June 8th this year, PHP is officially 30 years old and it still powers 77,4% of the public internet. 🎂 So join us on June 12th in celebrating with the inaugural RotterdamPHP meetup featuring Gina Banyard (PHP core developer) talking about "30 years of PHP: The brilliant, the bad, and the baffling". RSVP on meetup, and we'll make sure there's dinner & cake for you 😉 https://www.meetup.com/rotterdamphp/events/308104341/ #PHP #Rotterdam #Meetup
An image post from Damien Seguy on phpc.social. The image reads: “Someone once said, ‘Heaven is the clarity of logic.’ That’s what PHP feels like when it all clicks. I’m already loving it - and it’s only been a week. What a week it’s been.”
🚨 🐛 We're back on the 18th of June with our Hungry Caterpillar & CQRS in PHP event! 🐛🚨 Join us with Andy Carter & Ifeanyi Madu to learn more about the challenges of complex code and an introduction to CQRS! Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/leedsphp/events/308063952 We'll also be giving away a Kubernetes book kindly donated by Nigel Poulton! 📚 Thank you to Estrato Cloud for sponsoring this event and to AutoProtect for hosting us in their lovely offices 😄 #leedsphp #php #cqrs #kubernetes
Are you attending the International PHP Conference online or in Berlin next week? If so, make sure to mark your schedules for these sessions with Zend PHP experts Anna Filina ( @afilina ) and Massimiliano Cavicchioli — details below. Want to book time with our team at the event? Fill out this form >> https://‪ter.li/d4s64b‬ Don't Miss These Speaking Sessions! Make Mission-Critical PHP Possible With Zend - TUESDAY, JUNE 3, The Best Infrastructure for PHP Apps in Production, Massimiliano Cavicchioli, Senior Manager, Sales Engineering, Perforce Zend, 11:00 - 11:45 - THURSDAY, JUNE 5, Upgrading Legacy to the Latest PHP Version, Anna Filina, Senior Manager, Professional Services, Perforce Zend, 09:00 - 09:45
From Chris Wiegman on the Fediverse: “@ericmann finally convinced me during his #phptek chat just now and I signed up for a 1-year subscription to PHP Architect.”
A screenshot of a Fediverse post made on Jan 11, 2025 at 07:49 UTC from the official PHP account at @php@fosstodon.org: ⛔ As of January 1, PHP 8.2 is in security support mode. 🆙 Consider upgrading to PHP 8.3 or higher. To read more about how to upgrade: 🔗 ‪php.net/migration83‬ 🔗 ‪php.net/migration84‬
The cover of the first issue of php|architect magazine, from December 2002.