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Oct 21, 2026
Rob T. FireflyPANELIST
Yeah, PHP is the underlying engine that runs so much of the modern internet.
Rob T. FireflyPANELIST
WordPress, MediaWiki, PHPBB, Joomla, Symfony, Drupal, all sorts of dynamic content management systems and forums and blogs and all sorts of things.
Rob T. FireflyPANELIST
But a good question a lot of people are asking these days is, How many of these sites really needed to be running on something like PHP? How many of these sites could have gotten by with just being static websites like we used to have in the old days? Just basic text, images, media, whatever, but stuff that doesn't have to be generated, that can just be downloaded as a static file when it's needed.
Emmanuel GoldsteinHOST
I like those sites where you just get the data and read something.
Jess HebenstreitHOST
It's used in Drupal.
Jess HebenstreitHOST
It's in Joomla, Magento, MediaWiki, PHP My Admin, Laravel, Symfony.
Jess HebenstreitHOST
It's throughout all of those.
Jess HebenstreitHOST
And, you know, I...
Rob T. FireflyHOST
Yeah, PHP is the underlying technology.
Rob T. FireflyHOST
the underlying engine that runs so much of the modern Internet, WordPress, MediaWiki, PHPBB, Joomla, Symfony, Drupal, all sorts of dynamic content management systems and forums and blogs and all sorts of things.
Rob T. FireflyHOST
But a good question a lot of people are asking these days is, how many of these sites really needed to be running on something like PHP? How many of these sites could have gotten by with just being static websites like we used to have in the old days? Just basic, you know, text, images, media, whatever, but stuff that doesn't have to be generated, that can just be downloaded as a static file when it's needed.
Emmanuel GoldsteinHOST
I like those sites where you just get the data and, you know, read something.
Nic LaflinHOST
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Nic LaflinHOST
Drupal Association takes some percentage and sends some of that to Symfony, sends some of that to s- well, I'm sure something, something to CKEditor.
Nic LaflinHOST
You know, maybe Symfony sends some of it to the PHP Foundation, maybe Drupal.
Nic LaflinHOST
You know, if you can start floating that stuff upstream, you look at things like cURL is used by every single company on the planet.
Tim LehnenGUEST
Yep.
Bob BloomHOST
Magento, PrestoShop, OpenCart, Moodle, Media, Wiki, which powers Wikipedia, altogether 2%.
Bob BloomHOST
Joomla, Drupal, and Symfony are each 1%.
Bob BloomHOST
CodeIgniter, TakePHP, and YII, never know how to pronounce that, altogether 1%.
Bob BloomHOST
And I couldn't find that other 4%.