Nexen.net has posted their latest statistics for PHP for the month of January (2007), showing the status of PHP as of the end of last year - December 2006.

Here are the PHP stats for December 2006. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 19 millions servers hosted on 2,2 millions IP were surveyed during December, and 9,2 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.

The stats are pretty exhaustive and include:

• PHP's share of the internet
• PHP adoption by country
• Apache adoption by country
• PHP adoption by IP address

Check out the full stats for even more great info - including graphs to help visualize the results.