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| ▲ | whycome 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It’s still popular af. Almost half of any cms site online is powered by Wordpress. Many sales sites use woocommerce (Wordpress plugin). Message boards for sure (phpbb!). Moodle and other similar learning management tools run on PHP. Other cms systems like drupal and joomla make up another big portion of cms installs. I think the custom Wikipedia (mediawiki?) is php. |
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| ▲ | nijave 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, I thought it was dying a bit but was looking for webmail software (Roundcube, etc) a couple days ago and all of it is PHP. | |
| ▲ | phplovesong 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | PHP is ONLY popular because of mainly wordpress. Usage outside the big CMS are minimal at best, in 2026. I dont see much greenfield / PHP jobs that are not legacy software these days. | | |
| ▲ | nostrademons 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There's very little green-field PHP being written, but there's an awful lot of the Internet that was written over the last 30 years, and there's also a lot of very popular turn-key software (eg. WordPress, MediaWiki, phpBB) that gets redeployed on new sites by people who just want something user-friendly that works. | |
| ▲ | nijave 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm not sure that's true. It seems very popular in OSS in general but not much enterprise/commercial uptake. I guess node has taken some market share it seems like | | |
| ▲ | cowlevel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | What else is using it and popular? Mediawiki - that's true. And some forums, but forums aren't popular any more. | | |
| ▲ | whycome 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No way. Forums are still incredibly popular. Something like RedFlagDeals has an entire business based around their forum and get close to 40m page views per month and more than 3m uniques. And there are at least 3 other hugely popular php based forums that I occasionally check — and those are just for my own niche interests. | |
| ▲ | dvdkon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nextcloud, the mentioned Roundcube, plenty non-Wordpress CMSs, many internal tools I work with daily... |
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| ▲ | dd8601fn 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I just got a nostalgia hit remembering all the phpBB type boards. But also I haven’t seen much of that style of bulletin boards in ages. Maybe the occasional EEVBlog or Ars kinda count? |
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| ▲ | robotmay 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I slopcoded my own forum software in Elixir/Phoenix recently, starting from my memories of phpBB and SMF forums I used to run. I’m using it as a forum for my vintage camera stall as I have a lot of people who enjoy hanging out at the stall, and it turns out they enjoy hanging out on a retro forum too. I do want to add some stupid forum features I remember from the 2000s. An RPG mod is definitely on my mind. | |
| ▲ | bombcar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | phpBB, vbulletin, and XenForo still power more than you might realize - often websites that still have comments are using one of those as a back-end, even if you can't access it directly. | | |
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| ▲ | apocalyptic0n3 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's still the most widely used server side language on the web thanks to WordPress, unless that has changed recently (it was dropping) |
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| ▲ | StilesCrisis 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Facebook is developed on a reimplementation of PHP! |
