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# The PHP Interpreter

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PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to

web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your

blog to the most popular websites in the world. PHP is distributed under the

[PHP License v3.01](LICENSE).

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[![Push](https://github.com/php/php-src/actions/workflows/push.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/php/php-src/actions/workflows/push.yml)

[![Build status](https://travis-ci.com/php/php-src.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/github/php/php-src)

[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/phpazuredevops/php/_apis/build/status/php.php-src?branchName=master)](https://dev.azure.com/phpazuredevops/php/_build/latest?definitionId=1&branchName=master)

[![Fuzzing Status](https://oss-fuzz-build-logs.storage.googleapis.com/badges/php.svg)](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?sort=-opened&can=1&q=proj:php)

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## Documentation

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The PHP manual is available at [php.net/docs](https://php.net/docs).

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## Installation

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### Prebuilt packages and binaries

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Prebuilt packages and binaries can be used to get up and running fast with PHP.

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For Windows, the PHP binaries can be obtained from

[windows.php.net](https://windows.php.net). After extracting the archive the

`*.exe` files are ready to use.

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For other systems, see the [installation chapter](https://php.net/install).

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### Building PHP source code

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*For Windows, see [Build your own PHP on Windows](https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild_sdk_2).*

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For a minimal PHP build from Git, you will need autoconf, bison, and re2c. For

a default build, you will additionally need libxml2 and libsqlite3.