It was never supposed to be this big.

Three decades after its improvised release, PHP powers the largest content platforms, the most extensive CMS ecosystem ever built, countless businesses, governments, and organizations.

For the first time, the people who shaped modern PHP tell the story themselves: the spaghetti code era, the framework wars, the heated debates, and the question that still lingers — is PHP dying, or just getting started?

This is the official teaser for our upcoming PHP documentary. The full film is coming soon.

Featuring: 
  - Nils Adermann – Creator of Composer
  - Taylor Otwell – Creator of Laravel
  - Nikita Popov – PHP Core Contributor
  - Fabien Potencier – Creator of Symfony
  - Roman Pronskiy – Founding Director at The PHP Foundation
  - Brent Roose – PHP Developer Advocate at JetBrains


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A teaser documentary-style piece tracing PHP's history from its origins as a simple templating engine to a widely-used language powering millions of websites and businesses. It touches on PHP's reputation for spaghetti code, the rise of frameworks like Laravel and Symfony, the creation of Composer, ongoing community debates between pragmatic and strict camps, and concerns about the language's future relevance.

The Story of PHP | TEASER