---
title: "FrankenPHP: the modern PHP app server"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/frankenphp-the-modern-php-app-server-hncgmlqfc
source_url: https://frankenphp.dev/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-05-23T07:49:21.132Z
updated: 2024-08-23T14:44:16.443Z
tags: ["php", "laravel", "symfony"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 141
comments: 12
language: en
---

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# FrankenPHP: the modern PHP app server

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 1 min read · 141 upvotes · 12 comments

## Summary

FrankenPHP is a modern PHP app server written in Go and C, natively supported by Symfony, API Platform, and Laravel. It offers faster performance compared to FPM, and can run apps without requiring an external service.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@jamiecarl** · 6 upvotes

> Messing around with FrakenPHP right now thanks to this post.  Took me all of 3 minutes to get it up and running with docker using an existing example application that's built on my own MVC framework with zero modifications.  Good start.  Keen to see how it performs on a larger application.

**@miguelgilmartinez** · 2 upvotes

> Is Wordpress+FrankenPHP faster than WordPress+PHP-FPM? Any benchmark? And what about stability?

**@sam7work** · 1 upvotes

> likely the most interesting development around PHP in recent times, make time for it during the end of the year holidays , and put it on your todo list , it's certainly worth the time ..

**@evkoh** · 0 upvotes

> Pas encore d'image Docker RedHat :/

**@astell** · 0 upvotes

> Did anyone tried it instead of FPM ?

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