# php/php-src

> The source code for the PHP interpreter, a popular scripting language for web development. Allows building and testing the interpreter itself.

- Magnitude: 7.3 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 40,667 total · +43 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–04:07 UTC, ≈ 222 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Other · Language: C · License: BSD-3-Clause · Created: 2011-06-16 · Last push: 2026-10-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/php/php-src · Homepage: https://www.php.net · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/php/php-src

## Useful for

- Build PHP from source for production.
- Run the full test suite to verify interpreter stability.
- Integrate PHP into a custom development environment.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:37–04:07: 40624 → 40667 stars (+43). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +222 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 71× 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” — 984 points, 14 h ago.
- About 50 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 8,268
- Issues and pull requests: 24,276
- Watchers: 1,351
- Average over the last week: 65 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 13
- Latest release: php-8.5.12 (2026-10-21)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-23 … 2026-10-22: 3, 4, 2, 2, 11, 5, 6, 1, 4, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 5, 3, 5, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 3, 1, 3, 1, 4, 12, 214, 43

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-21 3.5, 10-22 7.3

## Hacker News

- Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now — 1515 points, 650 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172041
- PHP 8.2.35 — 984 points, 535 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180873
- PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out — 276 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180943
- Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release — 134 points, 1 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171528
- Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release (CVSSv4 score of 9.2) — 21 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50174221

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
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Data as of 2026-10-22 04:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.