Development on the Pop PHP Framework was officially begun by Nick Sagona in late 2011, when he refactored a set of older library components into the first version of Pop PHP, which was released on March 19, 2012.

A current changelog is maintained for a recent list of changes and how they impact continued development with Pop PHP.

[11] Source: GitHub[12] While the initial development of the Pop PHP Framework was focused on building web applications, since version 3, Pop PHP fully supports console-based applications to be used on the CLI as well.

The Pop PHP Framework project welcomes community involvement and contribution via the current available channels.

[15] Some of the commonly used components and what they include are: Popcorn is a standalone web-based component that serves as a REST-based micro-framework layer to allow developers to quickly build REST-based web applications and APIs.

It allows the user to quickly scaffold application files and folders together as well as manage databases and migrations.