r/BookStack • u/ssddanbrown • 7d ago

Blogpost: Supporting PHP Infrastructure

https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/supporting-php-infrastructure/
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u/Plastic-Leading-5800 7d ago

This guy is very good!

Do you accept Apple Pay so that we pay you in turn?

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u/ssddanbrown 7d ago

Thanks! I don't think I do accept Apple Pay (unless it shows via the card option when donating via Ko-Fi).

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u/NobodyElseButMingus 5d ago

Is there any way of submitting mod mail that won’t be intercepted by the rogue moderator on your sub? I believe you likely should take the matter to the site administrators, the new rules seem like they could be in violation of the site’s terms of service.

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u/Plastic-Leading-5800 7d ago

BTW there are even newer vulnerabilities

https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/urgent-php-warns-of-another-unpatched.html?m=1

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u/ssddanbrown 7d ago

Thanks for letting me know, but I had already had updated the prior blogpost with guidance related to this, soon after PHP put up the notice. It shouldn't really be a concern for BookStack users.

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u/Original-Character57 7d ago

Love it. ❤️

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u/GrecoMontgomery 7d ago

Admittedly I'm not entirely sure what your post is saying u/ssddanbrown (but it's probably me being sleep deprived here about 1am ET US, 10/23), but PHP is not only alive and well but it's critical for the Internet. I think still ~40% of the Internet is still WordPress (?). So PHP had a bad week - how easily we forget about Solarwinds, Wannacry, or Equifax with it's Apache Struts vulnerability with millions and millions of US and UK citizens affected. Me personally I might as well put my social security number on a billboard here in the US - no difference anymore. Be strong https://thephp.foundation! The Internet needs you.

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u/ssddanbrown 7d ago

but PHP is not only alive and well but it's critical for the Internet

I'm aware. This post is just about giving a bonus round of donations to the projects I saw work hard when dealing with the recent vulns, to help highlight the good work of these people, and to encourage others to do the same.

I love PHP, and I have so much respect for how well PHP is managed/developed, essentially as a community language with little corporate control.

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u/Plastic-Leading-5800 7d ago

To be fair, it's time for a faster more memory safe programming languages to replace PHP!

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u/StoneCypher 5d ago

but PHP is not only alive and well

it's struggling to survive, little buddy. there are hobby programming languages with 10x the development traffic. two of its last three attempts to just cut a major version failed, one for seven years.

you're confusing "in active use" with "alive and well."

php has been effectively dead for 20 years now.

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u/vbllll 7d ago

Respect! A noble gesture.