The PHP Foundation
Sustaining the PHP language since 2021
The PHP Foundation is a collective of people and organizations relying on the PHP language. Its mission is to ensure the long-term prosperity of the PHP language.
Meet the developers we fund to work on PHP →
Our mission
Read our announcement for more information about the inspiration behind the launch of The PHP Foundation.
The PHP Foundation provides financial support and guidance to PHP language developers who improve the language in the areas of high-quality maintenance, security, and the implementation of new features approved through the PHP community's RFC process.
In the interest of retaining existing and gaining new contributors and users, The PHP Foundation aims to:
The PHP Foundation also represents the interests of the PHP language and community in open source policy discussions and collaborative partnerships across the open source landscape.
Our work
The foundation contracts a team of part- and full-time developers who work on maintenance, security, and new features for PHP.
The foundation team contributes in many forms: filing issues, reviewing pull requests, participating in discussions on mailing lists, triaging issues, submitting RFC proposals, writing documentation, maintaining project infrastructure, fixing bugs, and implementing features.
News
Describing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed.
Where PHP security triage stands, the tools we use, and how to send a report we can act on
What the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications means for the people who maintain PHP tooling
Members
In alphabetical order, the ten founding members of the foundation are: Acquia, Automattic, Craft CMS, JetBrains, Laravel, PrestaShop, Private Packagist, Symfony, Tideways, Zend by Perforce.
In addition to the Governing Board, The PHP Foundation has an Advisory Board with representatives from Automattic, JetBrains, Private Packagist, Symfony, Tideways, Zend by Perforce, Moodle, Shopware, Laravel, Ardennes-étape, Les-Tilleuls.coop / API Platform, Aternos GmbH, PrestaShop, CraftCMS, Manychat, Team.blue, and TYPO3.
The foundation is always open to new sponsors. If your company has been benefiting from PHP over the years, but not sure how it might give back to the ecosystem, now there's a clear and obvious choice.
