PHP

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. 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 a minimal PHP build from Git, you will need autoconf, bison, and re2c. For a default build, you will additionally need libxml2 and libsqlite3. Configure your build. --enable-debug is recommended for development, see ./configure --help for a full list of options. Build PHP. To speed up the build, specify the maximum number of jobs using the -j argument: The number of jobs should usually match the number of available cores, which can be determined using nproc . PHP ships with an extensive test suite, the command make test is used after successful compilation of the sources to run this test suite. Shall run make test with a maximum of 4 concurrent jobs: Generally the maximum number of jobs should not exceed the number of cores available. The qa.php.net site provides more detailed info about testing and quality assurance. Depending on your permissions and prefix, make install may need superuser permissions. Extensions provide additional functionality on top of PHP. PHP consists of many essential bundled extensions. Additional extensions can be found on the PIE Extensions list, and installed with 🥧 PIE, the PHP Installer for Extensions or the deprecated PHP Extension Community Library - PECL. The PHP source code is located in the Git repository at github.com/php/php-src. Contributions are most welcome by forking the repository and sending a pull request. Discussions are done on GitHub, but depending on the topic can also be relayed to the official PHP developer mailing list [email protected]. New features require an RFC and must be accepted by the developers. See Request for comments - RFC and Voting on PHP features for more information on the process. Bug fixes don't require an RFC. If the bug has a GitHub issue, reference it in the commit message using GH-NNNNNN . Use NNNNNN for tickets in the old bugs.php.net bug tracker. For the list of people who've put work into PHP, please see the PHP credits page.