CultRepo just released a teaser for "The Story of PHP", an upcoming documentary about the language that powers Laravel and a huge share of the web. The film is sponsored by JetBrains, and CultRepo says to expect the full release later this year.
PHP is the foundation Laravel is built on, so this is one a lot of us will want to see. As the teaser puts it, "it was never supposed to be this big." Three decades after its improvised release, PHP runs some of the largest content platforms and CMS communities on the internet, along with countless businesses, governments, and organizations.
What It Covers
The teaser frames the film as the people who shaped modern PHP telling the story themselves. It points at the spaghetti code era, the framework wars, the heated debates, and a question PHP developers still hear all the time: is PHP dying, or just getting started?
Who's Featured
The teaser lists who is lined up for interviews:
- Nils Adermann, creator of Composer
- Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel
- Nikita Popov, PHP core contributor
- Fabien Potencier, creator of Symfony
- Roman Pronskiy, founding director at The PHP Foundation
- Brent Roose, PHP Developer Advocate at JetBrains
- And more
Read more
Give the teaser a watch on YouTube, and keep an eye on the CultRepo channel for the full film.
