• PHP 5.2.5 is now the most popular PHP version, ahead of 4.4.8
• PHP 5 reaches 36.60% of PHP market share
• Still a lot of migrations toward 5.2.5 and 4.4.8

You can check out the details on these and other statistics (like PHP usage by country and version) the complete monthly stats and the evolution stats. Oh, and don't forget - Damien and crew are the ones supplying the latest edition of the elePHPants to the PHP community!

• There were no surprises, only data reinforcing already set trends
• PHP 5 now make up over a third of all PHP installations to date
• More installations moved up to PHP versions 5.2.5 and 4.4.8
• Apache has almost reached 70% of the web server market share

You can check out the full details on this month's stats page including the evolution stats over on Nexen.net.

PHP adoption statistics for December 2007 are released. Here are the monthly highlights:

• PHP 5 is now running on 27.8% of the servers
• PHP 5.2 usage will pass PHP 4.3 by April
• PHP 5.2.5 is 8.7% of the PHP 5 market

You can get more information on this month's stats over on the Nexen.net website - the evolution stats and the full stats for December 2007.

• PHP 5 reaches a quarter of the PHP market
• PHP 4.4.7 is the last standing
• The elePHPant as no impact on the stats

You can find the full stats (including all the graphs you could want) here (evolution stats) and here (for the version statistics). Also, if you have no idea what the elePHPant is about, check out this post for the details and this post to find out how to get your own.

Here are the PHP stats for September 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 27.4 millions servers hosted on 2.4 millions IP were surveyed during September, and 11.4 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.

Here's the monthly highlights:

• PHP 5 continue its steady progression : +1% to 23%
• PHP 4 swan song ?
• Apache grows to 68,59 %

The main stats for the month are here and the "evolution" stats are here.

Here is the evolution graphic for PHP, in August 2006. To learn about the methodology, see la section phpversion. 15 millions servers were surveyed during August, and 8,2 were used for the stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP or domain parkings were not considered.

PHP's overall adoption dipped down a bit this month, mostly due to the comination of many other smaller languages rising in popularity. All the while, though, PHP5 adoption is soaring, even gaining back ground it lost last month, and PHP 4.4 is growing more in popularity of the 4.x series versions, almost overtaking 4.3.

The complete stats are available here and the details behind them are here.