PHP Community Book

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:18:33 +0000

Join the PHP Community Book — A Developer-Driven Project for a Global Good

The PHP community has always been built on collaboration.
Open-source code, shared knowledge, endless blog posts, meetups, and mentoring — these have shaped generations of developers.

Today, I’m launching a project that brings all of this spirit together, and I’d love for you to be part of it:

The PHP Community Book — a community-driven, charity-powered collection of senior-level PHP interview questions.

This isn’t just another GitHub repost or a “top 100 questions” list.
It’s a curated, high-quality resource created by developers, for developers, with the purpose of raising money for charity.

Why This Project?

There is a huge difference between basic interview questions and the kind that truly reveal engineering maturity — the type senior developers use in real interviews.

But instead of one person writing them, this project invites the entire PHP community to contribute their most thoughtful, knowledge-revealing questions.

Every contribution:

strengthens the book
helps developers grow
supports a global education charity (e.g., Room to Read)
credits you as a contributor
gives back to the next generation

The final e-book will be published on Amazon Kindle. 100% of the income is donated.

What Kind of Questions Are We Collecting?

We focus on questions that expose understanding, not memorization:

How would you solve X using clean architecture?
Why would you choose composition over inheritance here?
How does PHP handle memory internally in this scenario?
What security risks does this code introduce and how to fix them?
What makes this pattern suitable (or not suitable) for PHP?
How do you structure an application to scale beyond one machine?
and so on ...

Categories include:

Language Basics
OOP
Design Patterns
Security
Testing
Performance
Architecture
Database
Tools & Ecosystem
PHP Internals

These are the questions that differentiate junior from senior, and senior from architect.

How You Can Contribute?

Because the repository is private (to maintain quality and avoid early leaks of book content), contributors join through a small approval process.

Step 1 — Register
- Submit your GitHub username here: Google Form link
Step 2 — Get Access
- You will be added to the private GitHub repository.
Step 3 — Submit a Question
- You don’t write files — you just open an Issue using the “New Question Proposal” template.
  Reviewers will walk through improvements and refinement.
Step 4 — Get Credited
- Every accepted contribution earns a spot in the Contributors section of the published book.
  Your GitHub profile, your name, your message — it’s all included.

Communication Happens in GitHub Discussions
We keep all project discussions inside GitHub:

Questions, reviews, ideas, announcements — everything is in one place, no extra tools needed.
This ensures full transparency and helps everyone stay aligned.

Why Charity?

Knowledge is meant to be shared, and so is opportunity.

Millions of children still lack access to education.
Organizations like Room to Read work globally to improve literacy and learning opportunities where it’s needed most.

By contributing a single question, you’re not just helping developers —
you’re directly helping children access education and a better future.

Why You Should Join?

If you’re a PHP engineer who:

believes in open knowledge
wants to impact thousands of developers
wants to support global education
wants to put your name into a meaningful community project
has at least one thoughtful, senior-level question to share

Then you’re exactly who this project needs.

Large or small, one question or ten — every contribution counts.

If this idea resonates with you, please take one minute to register:

Join the PHP Community Book

Let’s build something meaningful together —
for developers, for education, for the future.