Germany is spending €108 million to move its federal websites onto a TYPO3-based platform. The European Commission runs 770 sites on Drupal. Around 300,000 German federal users work on Nextcloud. All PHP.
Across Europe, when governments say "digital sovereignty," what they're describing is very often a PHP application. @sebastian looks at where PHP runs in the public sector, why there is a funding gap, and three practical changes to procurement that could fix it. https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/09/02/digital-sovereignty-is-written-in-php/ #php

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Image of the Earth at night, focused on Europe, showing the lights from the cities below. Image is from Insaanu Studio via Unsplash.

As @pronskiy's term on The PHP Foundation Board comes to an end, he is replaced by the wonderful @brendt, from a unanimous vote. Welcome Brent! 🚀 And thank you for your years of dedication and commitment to The PHP Foundation, Roman! ❤️🐘 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/09/01/welcome-brent-roose/

#php #phpc

Join us for The PHP Foundation Community Hour, an interactive podcast that helps you understand how you can contribute to the PHP ecosystem! Shout-out to @phparch for providing the infrastructure, platform, and technical support to enable us to host these episodes. 🧡 Read more:
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/08/31/join-us-for-the-php-foundation-community-hour/
#php #phpcommunity #contributions

The Laracon Archive https://laravel-news.com/laracon-archive

#Laravel #PHP

🆕 blog! “A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP”

If you're reading this, you've probably been hitting your head against a brick wall trying to parse and decipher the new HTTP Signatures sent by Mastodon and other Fediverse servers.

This is a…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/a-reasonably-practical-guide-to-validating-rfc-9421-http-signatures-for-activitypub-in-php/
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php #webdev

𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗺:

#MicroFramework #PHP #Slim

https://thewhale.cc/posts/slim

Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

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Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

Struggling with multi-day background tasks and complex state machines in Laravel? Standard queues have limits. Here is how to integrate Temporal workflows into your Laravel application for rock-solid distributed task orchestration. 🐘⚡

https://klytron.com/blog/scaling-temporal-workflows-laravel

#Laravel #PHP #Backend #Temporal #SoftwareEngineering

For the second week running, no PHP RFC is in the voting phase. So the internals list spent the week on something else: who is actually writing the mail.

10 stories, about 10 minutes.

https://youtu.be/y5Evw_KN0II

#PHP #PHPInternals

🆕 blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”

I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.

It works! You can follow @openbenches to see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and @colours for a …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-updates-to-activitybot/
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php

I released a new version 4.0 1 of Tachyon Webmail (active fork of Snappymail) last night.
New things include calendar (calDav), contact groups, bulk contact editing, icon streamlining, nextcloud integration and much more. Enjoy!

Https://tachyonmail.app

#tachyon #webmail #opensource #php #foss

[demo] https://files.octade.net/

I drafted a prototype for a PHP server application that automatically hashes and signs files and presents visitors with verification archives containing digital signatures for offline verification. The site allows readers to view, download, hash, and verify signatures of files. Since I occasionally like to publish puzzles and bits of cryptology, I just had to make this to scratch the old itch.

The neat thing about this design is that the current version has zero JavaScript. It uses CSS3 hacks with anchors and URL probing to emulate JavaScript and AJAX functionalities for modal dialogs to present server-side JSON data as HTML text.

When I upload files or documents to the server, the interface automatically presents them to the user in a grid. So now all I have to do is upload files and documents and the server generates the site.

The reader can then click buttons to hash, sign, view, verify, and download files.

GnuPG and OpenSSL Signatures are generated automatically on user demand. The site visitors can download these signatures and the public keys to verify files.

What should I add / change in the application and its interface?

What accessibility components might be warranted?

Should the application parse and present EXIF data, or is that too much?

#PHP #CSS3 #HTML5 #WebDesign #UX #cryptology #cryptography #crypto #signatures #OpenSSL #GnuPG #GPG #PGP #encryption #papers #preprints #documents #SelfHosted #WebLord #WebMaster #WebSerf #NoJS #Apache #CyberSecurity

@cryptography@soc.octade.net

Activity Pub bot instance (Mastodon-compatible) is now in v1.2. Mostly security hardening, some bug fixes + tests and Docker + nginx to deploy along previously available Apache.

Want to run your own bots in Fediverse? This is your quick & easy way to launch.

https://github.com/nekromoff/mastodon-bots

#activityPub #mastodon #mastolivre #mastoadmin #bots #bot #opensource #webdev #php #software

hooray! i finally posted v1.2.0 of the kiki homepage construction set. this includes a new feature that allows for Podcasting RSS feed support, which you can see in action at cd-rom.ca

https://tomotama.itch.io/kiki

thank you kiki sysops for keeping this tiny web alive with your experiments and feats. i haven't had to touch wordpress in two years and counting thanks to you 🙏

#kiki #smallweb #indieWeb #php

BTW I had account on identi.ca, which was StatusNet powered (I believe).

Yes, and it should not be implemented in Ruby or PHP or something like that. I have seen one online discussion forum being rewritten from PHP to Rust few years ago, and the improvement in responsiveness of the web platform was amazing. (I do C, not Rust, but C is too oldschool now, and the performance penalty of Rust is minor, probably not noticeable at all)

Friendica and its descendants are written in PHP. They may not be the fastest (even though what bogged down early Friendica were its heavyweight federation connectors to everywhere, especially the one for Facebook that came in 2011). Mike either discarded or rewrote these when he rewrote Red. But they happily run on a run-of-the-mill LAMP stack.

Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails. Hubzilla runs circles around it in terms of performance per account/channel, and that has to say something. The only thing that managed to top this was early diaspora*, written in Ruby on Rails for Mac with MongoDB as the database system.

The *omas are built in Elixir. Granted, they're utter featherweights, especially considering their features. They're legendary for their low server impact. Then again, Pleroma apparently is spaghetti code straight from hell. Its own devs often don't have a clue where to go look for bugs, much less how to fix them. (Miraculously, the Akkoma devs do manage to get ride of quite a number of them.)

The *keys are built in TypeScript and Vue.js. I guess one reason why Misskey is infamous for having so many forks and forks of forks is because there are tons of people who can code in JavaScript, the primary mobile programming language.

Iceshrimp.NET is a still very incomplete "rewrite" of old Iceshrimp in C#. It was largely tackled to get rid of all those nasty bugs inherited from Misskey that even Misskey doesn't manage to get rid of. I've heard quite some outcry: Iceshrimp.NET is a sell-out to Microsoft. I guess whoever uttered that didn't go check who owns TypeScript.

PieFed is a dead giveaway: Python. And PieFed makes more headlines in the Threadiverse for server politics than for its underlying technology, except that Lemmy pales in comparison.

GoToSocial is a dead giveaway, too: Go. And it was one of the first Fediverse server applications to not come with a Web UI. Those who use it for a single-user server often don't even bother installing one and use some Mastodon app or other instead. Besides, why drag around a Web UI if there are much better third-party Web UIs than whatever you could whip up?

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Iceshrimp #IceshrimpJS #Iceshrimp.NET #PieFed #GoToSocial #PHP #RubyOnRails #Elixir #JavaScript #TypeScript #VueJS #C# #Python #Go

⚙️ Did you know that citeproc-php is under new management?

The #PHP library that renders article #citations in #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) has changed maintenance hands from the library’s creator, Sebastian Böttger, to PKP.

Learn what citeproc-php is, what has changed, and what this means for OJS users, developers, and broader audiences.

Visit PKP's News Blog at https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/04/16/citeproc-php-is-now-managed-by-pkp/

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Decorational

𝗕𝗼𝘁𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗵𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝘁:

#Chat Bot #PHP #Laravel #Framework

https://thewhale.cc/posts/botman-is-a-framework-written-in-php-to-build-your-next-chat-bot

Write cross-platform chat bots with a simple to use, yet powerful API in PHP. Developed and well documented by Marcel Pociot.

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Write cross-platform chat bots with a simple to use, yet powerful API in PHP. Developed and well documented by Marcel Pociot.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗭𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗻𝘇𝗶𝗽 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗛𝗣:

#PHP #ZIP #UNZIP

https://thewhale.cc/posts/how-to-zip-and-unzip-files-in-php

Learn how to zip and unzip a file in PHP by Monty Shokeen.

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Learn how to zip and unzip a file in PHP by Monty Shokeen.