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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: '30 years of PHP: FrankenPHP is now part of the PHP organisation' |
| 3 | +layout: post |
| 4 | +tags: |
| 5 | + - news |
| 6 | +author: |
| 7 | + - name: Roman Pronskiy |
| 8 | + url: https://twitter.com/pronskiy |
| 9 | +published_at: 8 June 2025 |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +On June 8, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of the PHP language. Over time, PHP has become the most popular server-side programming language, now powering over 70% of websites! |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Exactly 30 years after the first release of PHP, we are proud to announce that [FrankenPHP](https://frankenphp.dev), a modern and high-performance application server based on Caddy, is now part of [the PHP organisation on GitHub](https://github.com/php/frankenphp). |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +As a reminder, FrankenPHP offers features that are unique in the PHP ecosystem: |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +* simplify the development of applications written in PHP; |
| 19 | +* drastically improve performance, while considerably reducing hosting costs (FinOps) and energy consumption (GreenOps); |
| 20 | +* facilitate deployment in production, whether on bare-metal servers, or in cloud-native environments; |
| 21 | +* easily develop real-time features thanks to native [Mercure](https://mercure.rocks) protocol support; |
| 22 | +* extend PHP apps with Go, C, and C++ programming languages; |
| 23 | +* support the PHP programming language in any application written in Go (server, proxy, in-house development…). |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +The move of FrankenPHP into the PHP organisation follows the announcement of FrankenPHP support by the PHP Foundation, in collaboration with [Les-Tilleuls.coop](https://les-tilleuls.coop) (the creator of FrankenPHP) and the team maintaining [the Caddy web server](https://caddyserver.com). |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +This is the first step towards greater integration of the tool into the language ecosystem. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +The roadmap and new features that are likely to change the way PHP applications are developed will be announced at the **[JetBrains PHPverse 2025](https://jb.gg/phpverse-phpf)** online conference on **June 17**, to celebrate PHP's 30th birthday. There is still time to register, and it's free! |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +[](https://jb.gg/phpverse-phpf) |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +Happy 30th birthday, PHP! 🎉 |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +🐘💜 |
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