--- title: "Watch the Teaser for 'The Story of PHP' Documentary" url: https://daily.dev/posts/watch-the-teaser-for-the-story-of-php-documentary-dw4zmddd8 source_url: https://laravel-news.com/watch-the-teaser-for-the-story-of-php-documentary type: article source: "Laravel News" author: "Eric L. Barnes" published: 2026-06-18T17:55:01.347Z updated: 2026-06-19T14:00:17.373Z tags: ["php", "laravel", "symfony", "jetbrains"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 30 comments: 2 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Watch the Teaser for 'The Story of PHP' Documentary **[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · [@ericlbarnes](https://daily.dev/ericlbarnes) · 2 min read · 30 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary CultRepo has released a teaser for 'The Story of PHP', a JetBrains-sponsored documentary covering three decades of PHP's history. The film features interviews with key figures including Taylor Otwell (Laravel), Fabien Potencier (Symfony), Nikita Popov (PHP core), Nils Adermann (Composer), and others. It explores PHP's evolution from spaghetti code era through framework wars to its current dominance powering major content platforms and CMS communities. The full documentary is expected later this year. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sam7work** · 2 upvotes > having known and used PHP since the first ever released version , this will be a trip down memory lane , i think ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Java Story: A Film About All of Us](https://daily.dev/posts/the-java-story-a-film-about-all-of-us-bypyskrfu) · Foojay.io · 10 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel), [#symfony](https://daily.dev/tags/symfony), [#jetbrains](https://daily.dev/tags/jetbrains) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/watch-the-teaser-for-the-story-of-php-documentary-dw4zmddd8)