php/php-src
Position in GitHub’s trending lists, facts from the GitHub API and the README, and the star history recorded by this site.
Collected
The PHP Interpreter
First paragraph of the README
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.
Where it is trending
| List | Position | Stars gained |
|---|---|---|
| All languages, today | #1 | +287 today |
Star history recorded by this site
One reading per day since Oct 22, 2026, the first day this repository was seen in a trending list. A chart is drawn once three days have been recorded.
- 41,335+246
- 41,089
Days on the daily trending list
Taken from the daily archive of this site: only the days our collector read GitHub’s list. A day that is not here may simply not have been read.
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README
from the repository php/php-src on GitHub. Open the original README
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Positions, star totals and “stars gained” are the ones GitHub published, read at Oct 23, 2026, 07:03 UTC. The README paragraph and the install command are copied automatically and are not reviewed.
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How many stars does php/php-src have?
41,335 stars and 8,330 forks when GitHub’s trending page was read on Oct 23, 2026, 07:03 UTC. GitHub reported 287 new stars for the period of the list it appears in.
What is php/php-src written in, and under which license?
GitHub classifies it as C. Its license, as reported by the GitHub API, is BSD-3-Clause.