PHP

Quality:

PHP - scripting language focused on web development. This programming language is the 6^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 1^st most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “PHP” in German Wikipedia has 73.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 62 references and 36 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 2009^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 592^nd most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 1^st most popular in programming languages in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2176^th most popular in all topics.

The 440^th most popular in AI.

The 6^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5814^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “PHP”, its content was written by 699 registered users of German Wikipedia (592^nd place) and edited by 8407 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (440^th place).

PHP is on the 1^st place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 6^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 740 times in German Wikipedia and cited 16135 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #82 in November 2002
• Global: #20 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #196 in July 2008
• Global: #610 in April 2015

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) PHP		100
2	Latin (la) PHP		100
3	Turkish (tr) PHP		91.1276
4	Chinese (zh) PHP		85.282
5	Serbian (sr) PHP		84.7657
6	Persian (fa) پی‌اچ‌پی		80.543
7	Hungarian (hu) PHP		75.2807
8	German (de) PHP		73.5774
9	Russian (ru) PHP		66.7272
10	Japanese (ja) PHP (プログラミング言語)		63.5917

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PHP		26 554 617
2	Spanish (es) PHP		5 879 500
3	German (de) PHP		5 277 775
4	Russian (ru) PHP		5 214 538
5	French (fr) PHP		2 974 309
6	Japanese (ja) PHP (プログラミング言語)		2 477 693
7	Polish (pl) PHP		2 101 943
8	Portuguese (pt) PHP		1 757 142
9	Italian (it) PHP		1 482 955
10	Chinese (zh) PHP		1 428 751

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PHP		32 770
2	Russian (ru) PHP		5 584
3	Spanish (es) PHP		4 471
4	French (fr) PHP		4 340
5	German (de) PHP		3 861
6	Japanese (ja) PHP (プログラミング言語)		3 394
7	Chinese (zh) PHP		1 956
8	Portuguese (pt) PHP		1 806
9	Italian (it) PHP		1 729
10	Polish (pl) PHP		1 534

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PHP		2 252
2	German (de) PHP		699
3	French (fr) PHP		560
4	Russian (ru) PHP		469
5	Spanish (es) PHP		427
6	Italian (it) PHP		292
7	Dutch (nl) PHP		287
8	Chinese (zh) PHP		233
9	Polish (pl) PHP		230
10	Portuguese (pt) PHP		211

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PHP		5
2	Czech (cs) PHP		2
3	Spanish (es) PHP		2
4	Japanese (ja) PHP (プログラミング言語)		2
5	Latin (la) PHP		2
6	Simple English (simple) PHP		2
7	Belarusian (be) PHP		1
8	Persian (fa) پی‌اچ‌پی		1
9	French (fr) PHP		1
10	Galician (gl) PHP		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information