php/php-src
- Total stars
- 40,659
- Today · UTC
- +35since 00:37 UTC
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About the project
The source code for the PHP interpreter, a popular scripting language for web development. Allows building and testing the interpreter itself.
Useful for
- Build PHP from source for production.
- Run the full test suite to verify interpreter stability.
- Integrate PHP into a custom development environment.
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 22, 2026, 03:36 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:37–03:25: 40624 → 40659 stars (+35). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +214 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 68× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- Hacker News: “PHP 8.2.35” — 983 points, 13 h ago.
- About 47 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 231. +824% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 15, 2026
- 3
- October 16, 2026
- 1
- October 17, 2026
- 3
- October 18, 2026
- 1
- October 19, 2026
- 4
- October 20, 2026
- 12
- October 21, 2026
- 207
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 207 · October 21, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 22, 2026, 03:35 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 40,659
- Today
- +35 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–03:25 UTC, ≈ 214 by evening
- Forks
- 8,266
- Issues and pull requests
- 24,276
- Watchers
- 1,350
- Language
- C
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Latest release
- php-8.5.12 · October 21, 2026
- Created
- June 16, 2011
- Last push
- October 22, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now1,513 points, October 20, 2026
- PHP 8.2.35983 points, October 21, 2026
- PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out276 points, October 21, 2026
- Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release134 points, October 20, 2026
- Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release (CVSSv4 score of 9.2)21 points, October 20, 2026
- The PHP fix for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: +11556 lines of code6 points, October 21, 2026
Spotted in
- October 22, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- October 21, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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