What Industry Leaders Say About PHP

Slack

Communication Platform

"The advantages of the PHP environment – including low cost through fault isolation, safe concurrency, and high developer productivity – outweigh its weaknesses … I would start a new project in PHP today without apology."

"For new projects, we default to PHP or Java; only if something doesn't work in PHP do we look at something else. This is a great time to use PHP at scale."

— SVP John Allspaw & Dan Miller

"Hundreds of our application servers are now running on PHP7 and working flawlessly. PHP7 is ready for production use, stable, significantly reduces memory consumption, and drastically improves performance."

"When we rolled out PHP 7, latency dropped by half and CPU load by at least 50% … PHP 7 is pretty awesome!"

Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia/MediaWiki

"By switching to the HHVM engine for PHP, median page save time was reduced from 7.5s to 2.5s and average time from 6s to 3s."

"We owe our success to the strength and flexibility of the PHP ecosystem; PHP is easy to deploy and update, fast, flexible, and secure."

"PHP is fast for us (version 8+), our team knows it well, and it's simple … That's why we chose PHP."

"Vimeo's continued success with PHP is proof that it's a great tool for fast-moving companies."

— Matt Brown, Vimeo Engineering

"For 99.99994% of businesses, Laravel/PHP is enough and you can really hit the ground running. As Fathom grew, there was never any doubt whether the framework could handle enough requests per second."

— Jack Ellis, Founder

"Modern patterns showed that our PHP stack can meet high performance requirements; PHP offers stability, developer productivity, and a mature business ecosystem – Connect v2 is fast, reliable, and scales efficiently."

— Florent Laval, CTO

"PHP enabled us to launch an MVP in just a few days; today the platform handles over a billion conversations per year, still running on PHP."