🎉 30 years of PHP!
This Tuesday, Nicolas Grekas was in Amsterdam to represent Symfony and celebrate 3 decades of PHP!
Huge thanks to the speakers: Aleksandr Nasedkin, Nils Adermann, Nicolas Grekas, Kévin Dunglas, Gina Peter Banyard, Ben Marks, and Hamidreza Niazi!
🙌 Special thanks to the PHP Foundation and PHPVerse 2025 for making it happen. Next up: #SymfonyCon2025 Amsterdam! 💚 #PHP30 #Symfony #OpenSource
i wrote my first line of php in 2002
always felt like php was this ancient, established thing back then. it had a huge community, it had movable type, it had phpbb...
it's weird to think i've been using it for 23 years. that's more than 90% of it's lifetime.