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The PHP Interpreter
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PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world. PHP is distributed under the Modified BSD License (SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause). [](https://github.com/php/php-src/actions/workflows/test.yml) [](https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues?q=project:php) The PHP manual is available at php.net/docs. Prebuilt packages and binaries can be used to get up and running fast with PHP. For Windows, the PHP binaries can be obtained from windows.php.net. After extracting the archive the .exe files are ready to use. For other systems, see the installation chapter. For Windows, see Build your own PHP on Windows. For a minimal PHP build from Git, you will need autoconf, bison, and re2c. For a default build, you will additionally need libxml2 and libsqlite3. On Ubuntu, you can install these using: On Fedora, you can install these using: On MacOS, you can install these using brew:…
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- The PHP Interpreter
- Documentation
- Installation
- Prebuilt packages and binaries
- Building PHP source code
- Testing PHP source code
- Installing PHP built from source
- PHP extensions
- Contributing
- Guidelines for contributors
- Credits
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The PHP Interpreter
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- Owner
- php
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 41,708
- Forks
- 8,479
- Open issues + pull requests
- 2,213
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2011-06-16T01:52:25.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-22T11:17:47.000Z
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