MCP PHP SDK (official)
The official PHP SDK for MCP servers and clients, from the PHP Foundation and Symfony.
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You need a stable API; the maintainers consider it experimental until the first major release.
About MCP PHP SDK (official)
The official MCP PHP SDK, a collaboration between the PHP Foundation and the Symfony project, offers a framework-agnostic API for MCP servers and clients in PHP: tools, resources, prompts, stdio and HTTP transports, sessions and authorisation, covering both the handshake-based protocol and the stateless 2026-07-28 revision. Conformance scores are published weekly.
MCP PHP SDK (official) is an open-source project written primarily in PHP, with 1.6k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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