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PHP Foundation Blog
thephp.foundation · Company blog · on HN since 2023
The PHP Foundation's blog reports on funding, language development such as generics and the pipe operator, and its annual impact reports.
What HN saysHN commenters point to it as the source for the Foundation's activity, including annual transparency reports, funding appeals, and its post on the state of PHP generics.
28HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1The PHP Foundation: State of Generics and Collections4 people · 11 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 2The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 20244 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 3PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?3 people · 98 points · first shared 2025 · 63 comments on HN
- 4FrankenPHP (Caddy-based) is now officially supported by the PHP Foundation3 people · 20 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 5PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator2 people · 435 points · first shared 2025 · 274 comments on HN
- 6Evolving PHP Streams2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7PHP Through a Screen Reader: Small Syntax Choices That Matter2 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 8Elizabeth Barron Is the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation2 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 9Homepage2 people · first shared 2024
- 10PHP Core Security Audit Results1 people · 137 points · first shared 2025 · 68 comments on HN
- 11PHP Design Contest Results1 people · 16 points · first shared 2025 · 4 comments on HN
- 12The PHP Foundation Is Seeking a New Executive Director1 people · 11 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 13The PHP Foundation Presentations1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14PHP's New URI Extension1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15The PHP Foundation Impact and Transparency Report 20251 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
shprd · 2024-10-14
> And what makes Automattic's contributions any different?
Well, unlike WPEngine, Automattic and Matt make significant contribution beyond their ecosystem, here are some:
- Let's encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
- Matrix's open protocol: https://matrix.org/
- The PHP Foundation: https://thephp.foundation/
- Open Source Initiative: https://opensource.org/
- And the list goes on: contributing and sponsoring many projects and developers that everyone using the web benefited from, including you and billions of people (not counting wordpress's impact)
Please educate yourself before spreading FUD about people who made great contributions constantly to the open web, the entire industry, and promoted open source on every chance they got.
pier25 · 2024-11-24
what about the PHP Foundation?
https://thephp.foundation/
jorams · 2026-03-04
> What did they do last year? There is no annual public report of their activity.
There is[1][2][3], the one for 2025 just isn't out yet.
[1]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparency-and-impact-repo…
[2]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-impact-repo…
[3]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-impact-repo…
boogadaboogada · 2026-03-04
Does this answer your question?
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-you-in-2026/
dreadnip · 2025-11-20
If you're interested about generics in PHP, you can read this blog post by the PHP foundation: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/08/19/state-of-generics-and-collec… or this PR by Nikita: https://github.com/PHPGenerics/php-generics-rfc/issues/45.
TLDR: The PHP compiler isn't really suited for the job, it would introduce a lot of complexity to an already complex codebase and the memory/performance hit would be substantial.
gabesullice · 2025-09-25
For an actual view of the syntax not behind a sign-in wall: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/08/05/compile-generics/
hu3 · 2025-09-13
> PHP community lacks the resources to see a non-PHP tool thrive.
Why do you think so?
The PHP Foundation has raised over 2 million USD in contribution and has over 500K in their balance currently according to:
https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation
PHP has some well funded groups using it like Wordpress, Wikipedia, Laravel to name a few.
And recently the PHP Foundation started officially sponsoring a Go project, FrankenPHP.
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/05/15/frankenphp/
So PHP looks like a friendly and well supported community to foster tooling made in other languages.
honorary-hickup · 2025-08-30
> It will happily accept string in a array of dates, for example
While completely true, you are using static analyzer anyway which won’t let you do this.
The generics support will likely come in the near future, there has been momentum in it again: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/08/05/compile-generics/
johnisgood · 2025-08-05
Additionally, PHP 8.5 will have the pipe operator.
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/07/11/php-85-adds-pipe-operator/
Ayesh · 2025-04-14
Huge shout-out to the PHP Foundation for this.
Last year, it received close to 680K USD, and managed this security audit, sponsored 10 developers, and paid for various expenses. For a language that runs close to 75% of the web, it certainly deserves more funding.
Some of the recent initiatives from the Foundation (https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparency-and-impact-repo… :
- All PHP versions now receive a total of 4 years of security updates; 2 bug fixes + 2 security, up from 3.
- PIE: A replacement for PECL, to easily install PHP extensions (C, C++ compiled, not PHP packages).
- The security audit.
(I'm one of the PHP Core team and a volunteer at the foundation, happy to answer any questions, but almost all of the work is public)
pluc · 2024-11-21
They just added extension support to packagist, so composer looks like a pretty healthy ecosystem that's officially supported.
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/11/19/pie-pre-release/
0x073 · 2024-09-09
Its wrong, or at least not my definition of few people.
https://thephp.foundation/structure/
"Core Developers The PHP Foundation contracts 10 full-time and part-time engineers to maintain and develop the PHP language."