PHP

Quality:

PHP - scripting language focused on web development. This programming language is the 7^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 9^th most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “PHP” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4300^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1453^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 9^th most popular in programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2324^th most popular in all topics.

The 448^th most popular in AI.

The 7^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3433^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “PHP”, its content was written by 70 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1453^rd place) and edited by 8451 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (448^th place).

PHP is on the 9^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 7^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 53 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16018 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #138 in June 2007
• Global: #21 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #900 in March 2009
• Global: #633 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, 2026 (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		91.3141
4	Serbian (sr) PHP		84.8786
5	Chinese (zh) PHP		82.8564
6	Persian (fa) پی‌اچ‌پی		82.1309
7	Hungarian (hu) PHP		75.2606
8	German (de) PHP		72.284
9	Russian (ru) PHP		68.7386
10	Japanese (ja) PHP (プログラミング言語)		63.7413

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PHP		26 933 315
2	Spanish (es) PHP		5 915 344
3	German (de) PHP		5 329 398
4	Russian (ru) PHP		5 266 195
5	French (fr) PHP		3 005 834
6	Japanese (ja) PHP (プログラミング言語)		2 511 930
7	Polish (pl) PHP		2 115 183
8	Portuguese (pt) PHP		1 773 679
9	Italian (it) PHP		1 500 890
10	Chinese (zh) PHP		1 449 390

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		31 407
2	French (fr) PHP		4 154
3	German (de) PHP		3 805
4	Russian (ru) PHP		3 109
5	Japanese (ja) PHP (プログラミング言語)		2 244
6	Spanish (es) PHP		1 982
7	Chinese (zh) PHP		1 696
8	Portuguese (pt) PHP		1 540
9	Hungarian (hu) PHP		1 524
10	Italian (it) PHP		1 431

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PHP		2 287
2	German (de) PHP		704
3	French (fr) PHP		570
4	Russian (ru) PHP		472
5	Spanish (es) PHP		442
6	Italian (it) PHP		294
7	Dutch (nl) PHP		290
8	Chinese (zh) PHP		237
9	Polish (pl) PHP		233
10	Portuguese (pt) PHP		218

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	French (fr) PHP		5
2	German (de) PHP		4
3	Armenian (hy) PHP		2
4	Dutch (nl) PHP		2
5	Arabic (ar) بي إتش بي		1
6	Belarusian (be) PHP		1
7	Basque (eu) PHP		1
8	Persian (fa) پی‌اچ‌پی		1
9	Hungarian (hu) PHP		1
10	Indonesian (id) 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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information