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WatTyler Jun 16, 2023

Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP?

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/84259

Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? - SDF Chatter

I don’t know if it’s due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012…). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around. Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?

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artillect Jun 16, 2023

I don't know too much about PHP (aside from it getting memed on constantly), but kbin is built using the Symfony framework, which is really performant and mature based on what I've heard from others. Also, apparently ~80% of all websites (that W3techs knows about) rely on PHP in some way

Usage Statistics and Market Share of PHP for Websites, September 2025

How many websites are using PHP

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AggressivelyPassive Jun 16, 2023

The 80% stem mostly from WordPress and a bunch of domain placeholders.

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YMS

WordPress, Joomla, Typo3, Drupal, ... PHP is pretty much omnipresent in CMS systems. It's not a huge number of different PHP CMS, but it results in a huge number of websites being PHP-based. The vast majority of those websites don't care for the programming language - they pick an existing CMS so they don't have to do their own programming.