The PHP questions were only shown to the developers who chose PHP as one of their three primary programming languages.

Which version of PHP do you regularly use?

23%
PHP 7.3
35%
PHP 7.2
17%
PHP 7.1
10%
PHP 7.0
11%
PHP 5.6
2%
PHP 5.5
0%
PHP 5.4
1%
PHP 5.3
0%
Other

A lot of developers have migrated from PHP 5.x versions to the newer 7.x ones. In a year, the share of PHP 5 has plummeted from 29% to only 14%.

Which frameworks or CMSs do you regularly use?

50%26%23%11% 9% 7% 7% 7% 7% 6% 5% 8%10%LaravelWordPressSymfonyCodeIgniterCakePHPDrupalMagentoSlimYiiZendJoomla!OtherNone

WordPress has dropped from 32% in 2018 to 26% in 2019, while Laravel has consolidated its dominant position.

Which editor / IDE do you use the most?

56%13% 7% 7% 5% 3% 3% 3% 2% 0% 0% 1%PhpStormVS CodeSublime TextIntelliJ IDEA Ultimate with PHP pluginNotepad++Eclipse PDTNetBeans IDEVimAtomPHPEditCodaOther

The usage of containerized environments by PHP developers is growing steadily by 12% per year – from 18% in 2017, to 30% in 2018, to 42% in 2019.

Like a year ago, every other PHP developer uses Xdebug.

Which testing frameworks do you regularly use?

61% 5% 4% 3% 3% 0% 1%35%PHPUnitCodeceptionPHPSpecBehatSimpleTestAtoumOtherNone

What quality tools do you use regularly?

27%24%10% 9% 5% 1% 0%57%PHP_CodeSnifferPHP CS FixerPHPMDPHPStanPhanPsalmOtherNone

What template engines do you use?

34%None, I use pure PHP
33%Blade
26%Twig
18%Smarty
5%None, I don’trender HTML
4%Mustache
0%Latte
3%Other

Most PHP developers don't use anything for profiling or measuring performance. Those who do typically use the Xdebug Profiler or non-specific tools for HTTP load measurement. Other PHP-specific tools (such as Blackfire.io, APM solutions, and XHProf) are used by less than 10% of PHP developers.