r/PHP
PHP: The latest news in the PHP world
Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Share and discover the latest news about the PHP ecosystem and its community. Please respect r/php's rules.
Members
203,296
203K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
8.3
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 2 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
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r/PHP — frequently asked
How many members does r/PHP have?
r/PHP has 203,296 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 22. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/PHP growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/PHP yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 2; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/PHP?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/PHP yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/PHP created?
r/PHP was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/PHP?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/PHP yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/PHP for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/PHP into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/PHP's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/PHP's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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