---
title: "PHP in 2023"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-in-2023-hmy0lur5e
source_url: https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2023
type: article
source: "stitcher.io"
published: 2023-01-17T06:02:32.862Z
updated: 2023-01-17T06:02:32.764Z
tags: ["community", "wordpress", "php", "laravel", "symfony"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 137
comments: 9
language: en
---

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# PHP in 2023

**[stitcher.io](https://daily.dev/sources/stitcher)** · 6 min read · 137 upvotes · 9 comments

## Summary

PHP has grown to become one of the most popular languages for web development, powering everything from small blogs to large enterprise applications. It's been a little over a year since the foundation was created: a collective of 10 volunteers and 6 developers being paid to work on PHP, the language. In total, $580,000 was raised in 2022.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2023>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@kddige** · 2 upvotes

> Recently started picking up learning PHP for backend web development, and i absolutely love it.

**@jenueldev** · 1 upvotes

> Thanks for the update about php mate

**@tchoffojunior** · 0 upvotes

> This language is very fascinating, for the part it is very flexible and the best in web development..

**@munaimpro** · 0 upvotes

> The explanation of the PHP version update was very interesting and inspiring. Thanks a lot for the update about PHP in 2023

**@arturosob** · 0 upvotes

> I really like it this post, PHP is a very beautiful programming language ❤️

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