Key facts
- The PHP Foundation has one full-time staff member and 14 part-time contractors.
- PHP may underpin up to 70% of websites globally.
- Two serious security flaws in PHP were discovered this week.
The PHP Foundation, responsible for supporting the widely used open-source programming language PHP, is operating with a minimal budget and staff, according to Executive Director Elizabeth Barron. The foundation has one full-time employee and relies on donations and grants. This comes as two critical security flaws were recently discovered in PHP, highlighting the language's importance to internet infrastructure. Barron stated that artificial intelligence has aided in identifying these flaws but has also increased the workload for maintainers due to a surge in code change proposals.