Where to find PHP version usage stats?

Posted by Darren Cook on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Darren Cook
Published on 2012-09-03T01:38:19Z Indexed on 2012/09/03 3:49 UTC
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My original question was: what percentage of sites are using php 5.4.x? (As it has some very interesting new features.) With secondary questions like how many of the cheap web hosting places have upgraded, which versions of the linux distros include it, etc.

But I'm coming up blanks. http://php.net/usage.php stops at July 2007, and the nexen.net website seems to have stopped in 2008. At SecuritySpace they only list the web servers, not php versions. The TIOBE link isn't what I'm after (it doesn't -- and couldn't -- break down by version number.

I thought php.net might show download numbers, but I cannot see them anywhere.

I kind of answered the distro question, but it requires a lot of clicking around at distrowatch.com. E.g. I see here that Ubuntu offers php 5.4.6 in the latest snapshot, but the latest release (Ubuntu 12.04) has 5.3.10.

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