About PHP Magazin

PHP Magazin

PHP Magazin is the German computer magazine with the focus on PHP, published by the Software & Support Media Group in Frankfurt am Main. Appearing bimonthly with a 6,000-copy print run (Q2/2015), it has served the PHP and web developers since 2001: the topics presented from the developer's perspective rather than the designer's — PHP and the web-related themes like web design or technologies such as Ajax. The ISSN is 1619-7976 — the identifier of the 2001-founded PHP developers' magazine, from the standalone bimonthly to the Entwickler Magazin's part. The print appearance was discontinued in 2020; since then the PHP Magazin is available as part of the Entwickler Magazin — the publisher's developer-magazine bundle on the entwickler.de knowledge platform. The magazine's 2001 launch also gave birth to the International PHP Conference.

Overview

PHP Magazin is a German-language bimonthly computer magazine for PHP and web development, published by Software & Support Media. The rhythm: every two months; the print run 6,000 copies (Q2/2015). The programme: PHP in focus — the language, the frameworks, the tools — plus the web-related topics: the web design, the Ajax technologies, the APIs, the Docker containers, the testing. The PHP language coverage — the versions' new features, the core's development, the "Was juckt mich der Core?" practitioner debate — keeps the developers current: the language evolving slowly but continuously, the magazine checking what endures. The framework coverage — the Symfony and Laravel ecosystems, the framework choice's economics ("why reinvent the wheel with each project?") — guides the architecture decisions. The web-technology coverage looks beyond the PHP horizon: the RESTful APIs built with Flask, the Docker containers' deployment, the faker.js test-data library — the pragmatic PHP developer's toolkit. The progressive-web-app coverage — the Ionic framework's cross-platform development — opens the mobile: the hybrid and progressive web apps as the best of both worlds. The web-app quickstarts — the 6/2018 issue's API-plus-Docker tutorial — are the hands-on: the complete modern web app built. The book reviews — the developers' literature judged — complete the knowledge. The editorials — the StarCraft micro/macro lessons for software companies, Dennis Wilson's bronze-league confession — are the magazine's voice: self-ironic, pragmatic, community-near. The perspective: the developer's, not the designer's — distinguishing the magazine from the internet publications' design orientation. The readers: the PHP developers, the web developers, the agencies' programmers — the German-speaking web-development community, pragmatic and undogmatic, looking beyond the PHP horizon. The 2020 transition: the print's discontinuation, the continuation as part of the Entwickler Magazin — the entwickler.de platform's magazine bundle. The online presence: the entwickler.de/php section with the current news, the book reviews, the specialist articles; the web forum as the publications' interface and the developers' research source for code examples.

History

Originally the topic spectrum was covered by another magazine of the publishing house; from 2001 a dedicated magazine was published: the PHP Magazin. The 2001 founding year's context: the dot-com era's PHP boom — the scripting language powering the dynamic web. The good sales development prompted the publisher in 2001 to expand the topic with a dedicated conference: the International PHP Conference was born — the magazine's event twin. The Software & Support Media Group — founded in 1995, the first specialist magazine Der Entwickler (later Entwickler Magazin) in the same year, the Java Magazin in 1998, the JAX Conference in 2001, the Entwickler Akademie in 2008, the entwickler.de knowledge platform's 2021 bundling — is the magazine's corporate home: the Frankfurt developer-media house. The 1995 founding — the internet's commercial dawn — makes S&S the contemporary of the German web industry: the developer media growing with the developers. The conference business — the JAX, the BASTA!, the International PHP Conference, the London-New York-San Diego-Singapore expansion — is the house's events pillar: the developers meeting, the knowledge transferred, the community built. The long-serving editor Tom Wießeckel — over eight years responsible for the PHP Magazin until 2017 — established it as the community's fixture. The eight-year editorship — the 2009–2017 era — shaped the magazine's voice: the pragmatic, community-near tone, the "feste Größe in der Community." The farewell editorial's gratitude — the colleagues missing the ideas, the expertise, the passion — shows the editor-driven specialist press: the magazine as the editor's work. The 2020 print discontinuation — the magazine continuing as part of the Entwickler Magazin — reflects the developer press's platform shift: the entwickler.de knowledge platform with the specialist articles, magazines, tutorials, video contents, conference recordings and live events. The platform's logic: the continuous learning — the developers learning not in the bimonthly rhythm but daily — the magazines bundled, the tutorials streamed, the conferences recorded. The PHP Magazin's survival as the bundle's part — the PHP content within the Entwickler Magazin — preserves the brand: the 2001-founded title living on in the platform era. The devm.io international platform (since 2022) and the devmio.nl Dutch offering (2025) extend the house's knowledge beyond the German-speaking world: the Frankfurt developer media going international.

Coverage and Content

The magazine's programme is the PHP developer's knowledge. The PHP language: the versions, the features, the core discussions — the "Was juckt mich der Core?" debate. The frameworks: the Symfony, Laravel, the web frameworks. The web technologies: the Ajax, the RESTful APIs with Flask, the Docker containers, the faker.js testing library. The progressive web apps: the Ionic framework's cross-platform apps — the 4/2017 title theme. The web-app quickstarts: the web app with API and Docker container — the 6/2018 issue. The book reviews: the developers' literature. The editorials: the StarCraft-strategy lessons for software companies, the "heißer Scheiß" pragmatism — the magazine's voice: pragmatic, not dogmatic, looking beyond the PHP horizon. The journalism is the developer press's: the tutorials, the code examples, the community's voices — the developers' magazine.

Organization and Ownership

PHP Magazin is published by the Software & Support Media Group in Frankfurt am Main — the developer-media house founded in 1995, known for the entwickler.de platform and the conference series JAX, BASTA! and the International PHP Conference. The commercial model is the developer-media's: the subscriptions — the Entwickler Magazin bundle since 2020 — the conferences — the International PHP Conference, the JAX, the BASTA! — the Entwickler Akademie's seminars and certifications, the entwickler.de platform's digital learning, and the devm.io international platform. The ISSN is 1619-7976. Detailed current circulation figures are not publicly confirmed in the sources available.

Digital Presence

The magazine's home is entwickler.de/magazine-ebooks/php-magazin — the PHP Magazin's section on the entwickler.de knowledge platform with the issues (4/2017, 6/2018, 6/2013 and the archive), the editorials, the articles. The entwickler.de platform — the 2021 bundling of the specialist articles, magazines, tutorials, video contents, conference recordings, live events and digital learning — is the digital home: the continuous learning for developers. The web forum — the publications' interface — is the community's exchange. The International PHP Conference — the 2001-founded event — is the physical community. In the German developer-press landscape PHP Magazin occupies the PHP pole: the 2001-founded bimonthly — the developer's perspective, the community's fixture, the IPC's birthplace — from the Frankfurt S&S house to the PHP developers, as part of the Entwickler Magazin, in print-bundle and online. The PHP language's endurance — the "unmodern" scripting language powering the web's giants, the massive stable market share — is the magazine's justification: the pragmatic language deserving the serious journal. The developer's-perspective positioning — against the designer-oriented internet publications — defined the niche: the code, not the layout; the backend, not the surface. The International PHP Conference — the 2001 magazine-born event — is the legacy: the community's annual meeting outliving the standalone print.