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PHP is a mini landing page

Use this route to narrow the field to repositories that share the same runtime and toolchain assumptions. The first read should tell you who leads the lane, which project still looks fresh, and how concentrated the category shape really is.

Leader

PHP leader

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Start here when you need the most visible anchor in this language ecosystem.

Freshest maintainer signal

Fresh activity

Commit recency not captured

Use recent commit timing to separate famous repos from still-active ones.

Dominant org

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Distributed ownership

Shows whether this language surface is driven by one publisher or many.

Shape insight

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0 repos tracked

Top-three concentration tells you whether this language view is broad or flagship-heavy.

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PHP rankings: how to read the ecosystem behind the stars

PHP powers over 75% of websites with known server-side languages, including WordPress, which alone runs 40% of the web. Modern PHP (8.x) with its JIT compiler, union types, and frameworks like Laravel has shed its legacy reputation to become a productive, well-designed language.

Laravel has revitalized the PHP ecosystem, offering an elegant developer experience comparable to Rails. Combined with WordPress, Drupal, and Symfony, PHP remains the most pragmatic choice for web development, especially for content management and e-commerce platforms.

We rank the top 50 PHP repositories by total GitHub stars. The prominence of Laravel and WordPress projects reflects PHP's dominance in content-driven web development.

Data is sourced from the GitHub REST API and updated daily. Rankings reflect cumulative star counts across each repository's lifetime and should be read as a discovery aid rather than a quality certification. See Methodology & Editorial Standards.

PHP rankings: how to read the ecosystem behind the stars

We rank the top 50 PHP repositories by total GitHub stars. The prominence of Laravel and WordPress projects reflects PHP's dominance in content-driven web development.