PHP Timeline

Notable events of PHP history collected for https://jb.gg/php25.

Contributing

If you spot a mistake, please create a pull request with a fix. At this point, we are accepting only minor fixes such as typos, correct dates, more accurate links, and so on.

If you like the timeline, you may support it by adding a star to the repo or sharing a link to the website jb.gg/php25.

Should the community support this endeavor, we can later make the website dynamic and make it possible to accept changes and additions to the events’ data.

Credits

Community members who helped with collecting and reviewing the timeline data:

• Peter Kokot
• Derick Rethans
• Alexander Makarov
• Andi Gutmans
• Dmitry Stogov
• Valentin Udaltsov
• Stanislav Malyshev
• Enrico Zimuel
• Sebastian Bergmann

Resources used:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
• https://www.php.net/history.php
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKXFgWP-2xQ
• https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/history-of-laravel-php-framework-eloquence-emerging/
• https://github.com/pmjones/php-history