Self-Hosted MCP: Building a Model Context Protocol Server in PHP
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Most of the Model Context Protocol tutorials you'll find are written in TypeScript or Python, because those are the languages with official SDKs. That leaves a fair number of us — people maintaining PHP applications that hold years of business data — wondering whether the protocol is even available to us. It is. MCP is a wire protocol, not a library. If your language can read a line from standard input and write JSON back, you can implement a server in it. This post walks through what the proto