Editing PHP (section)

== The PHP Foundation ==
{{Infobox organization
| formation                = {{start date and age|2021|11|22}}
| logo                     = The PHP Foundation Logo.svg
| founder                  = [[Automattic]], [[Laravel]], Acquia, [[Zend (company)|Zend]], Private Packagist, [[Symfony]], Craft CMS, Tideways, [[PrestaShop]], [[JetBrains]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=James |date=2021-12-13 |title=What the New PHP Foundation Means for PHP's Future |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/what-the-new-php-foundation-means-for-phps-future/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=How-To Geek |language=en}}</ref>
| website                  = https://thephp.foundation
}}
On 26 November 2021, the [[JetBrains]] blog announced the creation of The PHP Foundation, which will sponsor the design and development of PHP.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The New Life of PHP – The PHP Foundation {{!}} The PhpStorm Blog |url=https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2021/11/the-php-foundation/ |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=The JetBrains Blog |date=22 November 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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!2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2022 |url=https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-impact-report-2022/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=thephp.foundation |language=en}}</ref>
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!2023<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pronskiy |first=Roman |date=2024-02-26 |title=The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2023 |url=https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-impact-report-2023/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=The PHP Foundation}}</ref>
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The foundation hires "Core Developers" to work on the PHP language's core repository. Roman Pronskiy, a member of the foundation's board, said that they aim to pay "market salaries" to developers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Tim |title=PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers |url=https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/php_foundation_formed_to_fund/ |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}}</ref>

The response to the foundation has mostly been positive, with the foundation being praised for better supporting the language and helping to stop the decrease in the language's popularity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Programming languages: This old favourite is gaining popularity again |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-this-old-favourite-is-gaining-popularity-again/ |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=ZDNET |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PHP 8.1 Released With Enums, Read-Only Properties and Fibers |url=https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/15050-php-81-released.html |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=www.i-programmer.info}}</ref> However, it has also been criticised for adding breaking changes to minor versions of PHP, such as in PHP&nbsp;8.2 where initialising members of a class out-with the original class scope would cause deprecation errors,<ref>{{Cite web |title=It's time for the PHP Foundation to #StopBreakingPHP |url=https://trongate.io/news/display/TWN4GR/its-time-for-the-php-foundation-to-stopbreakingphp |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=trongate.io}}</ref> these changes impacted a number of open source projects including [[WordPress]].
<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-16 |title=WordPress 6.4 PHP Compatibility |url=https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/2023/11/16/wordpress-6-4-php-compatibility/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Make WordPress Hosting |language=en-US}}</ref>

Germany's [[Sovereign Tech Fund]] provided more than 200,000 Euros to support the PHP Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PHP |url=https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/php |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=Sovereign Tech Fund |language=en}}</ref>