Manuel Lemos gave a presentation about PHP in Brazil. Brazil has around 250,000 PHP developers, the 4th largest number globally. There are 15 PHP user groups registered on PHPUserGroups.org and 35 registered on PHPClasses.org, with 25 being active. Major PHP events in Brazil include FISL, LatinoWare, and CONISLI which all have dedicated PHP tracks.

1. PHP in Brazil
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@prophp.com.br
www.prophp.com.br
www.php.org.br
Microsoft Web Dev Summit 2008
Redmond, November 17, 2008

2. About Manuel Lemos
● Born and lived in Aveiro, Portugal until 1998
● Graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications
Engineering by Universidade de Aveiro in 1994
● Started working with PHP 2 in late 1997
● Wrote book “Estar na Internet” published by
McGraw‑Hill in 1998
● Moved to Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1998
● Created the PHPClasses.org site in 1999

3. PHP Community Worldwide
● Estimated in ~5 million developers worldwide
according to Zend
● Top 10 countries with most developers according to
PHPClasses.org statistics
1. United States 13.5%
2. India 7.5%
3. Germany 5.0%
4. Brazil 5.0% ~250,000 developers
5. United Kingdom 4.0%
6. France 3.5%
7. Netherlands 3.5%
8. Russia 3.0%
9. Spain 2.7%
10. Indonesia 2.7%

4. PHP user groups in Brazil
● 15 groups registered in the PHPUserGroups.org site
● 35 groups registered in the PHPClasses.org site, 25
active
● ProPHP – Group of PHP Professionals in Brazil –
formed in 2005 to organize a national PHP event
● PHP.org.br – PHP Brasil Comunidades – formed in
2008 to promote PHP user group cooperation, events
and other initiatives of interest of the PHP community

5. Important PHP mailing lists in Brazil
● General mailing list: php-pt started in 1999, 6700
users, 600 messages per month, moderated
● Advanced mailing list: php-especialistas started in
2000, 3300 users, 120 messages per month,
moderated
● Jobs mailing list: php-empregos started in 2001, 2900
users, 60 messages per month, moderated

6. PHP magazines in Portuguese
● PHP Magazine – PDF, Brazilian Portuguese
● Revista PHP - online, Brazilian Portuguese
● Revista PHP – PDF, Portugal Portuguese

7. Top Free Software events in Brazil
1. FISL – Forum Internacional de Software Livre – Porto
Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 9 editions, 7400 users
2. LatinoWare – Conferência Latino-Americana de
Software Livre – Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, 5 editions,
4200 users, PHP track: CoLAPHP – Congresso
Latino-Americano de PHP
3. CONISLI – Congresso Internacional de Software Livre
– Sao Paulo, 6 editions, 1000 users, PHP track:
CoNaPHP – Congresso Nacional de PHP

8. Questions?
Thank you!
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@prophp.com.br
www.prophp.com.br
www.php.org.br