The PHP Roundtable

Please consider supporting OSMI and its mission to help those facing mental illness in the tech community. Donate to Open Sourcing Mental IllnessOSMI began in 2013, with Ed Finkler speaking at tech conferences about his personal experiences as a web developer and open-source advocate with a mental health disorder. The response was overwhelming, and thus OSMI was born. OSMI board members and volunteers bring their time and expertise to bear on this important issue by organizing efforts to change the experiences of those with mental health disorders in the tech workplace. This includes speaking at conferences and companies, conducting research, and creating documentation to assist companies in making supportive environments for those impacted by mental health disorders.The PanelEric Van Johnson - https://phparch.social/@ericBen Ramsey - https://phpc.social/@ramseySara Golemon - https://phpc.social/@pollitaJoe Ferguson - https://phpc.social/@joepfergusonTom Rideout - https://twitter.com/RealRideoutBeth Tucker Long  - https://twitter.com/e3BethTEd Finkler - https://phpc.social/@funkatronOther LinksOSMI on Twitter - https://twitter.com/OSMIhelpOSMI on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/osmihelpOSMI on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBF9RcJ2o56UYO3kBqdKlHgOSMI on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/13196772/e-mail OSMI - info@osmihelp.orgPlaces you can find and follow PHPRoundtableYoutube - https://youtube.com/phproundtableTwitter - https://twitter.com/phproundtableMastodon - https://phparch.social/@phproundtable

Links from the ShowBoise State University GIMM ProgramMadison Area Technical CollegeThe PanelEric Van Johnson - This is me :-) I am a self-taught PHP developer and have been running a development studio for over ten years. Back in 2021, my business partner and I took over the operations of php[architect] / phparch.social/@eric and @shocm on TwitterBen Ramsey - A Software Architect, maintainer of the PHP UUID library, release manager for PHP 8.1 and 8.2, and does a lot for the PHP Community as a whole / phpc.social/@ramseyJoe Ferguson - Principal Software Engineer. Writer for php[architect], and is one of the organizers behind OSMI / phpc.social@joepfergusonSara Golemon - Contributor to PHP Core, PHP Release Manager 8.0 and 7.2, Author, and has code on Mars / phpc.social@pollitaKenneth Marks - Author of "PHP Web Development with MySQL" and teaching IT programming at Madison Area Technical College for ten and a half years in the Web Software Developer degree program / @FlibertiGibletsKaelyn Lang - Student at Madison Area Technical College studying Web Software Development BFA in Game Design and Development - Art and a minor in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-StoutJack Polifka - Clinical assistant professor at Boise State University in the Games, Interactive Media, and Mobile (GIMM) program/ @jack_polifkaAdam Giles - third-year student at Boise State Universitypursuing an undergraduate degree in Games, Interactive Media, and Mobile (GIMM) / @adamgiles278Derek Pyatt - third-year student at Boise State Universitypursuing an undergraduate degree in Games, Interactive Media, and Mobile (GIMM), also working as a Web and Digital Coordinator for BSU's Admissions office / @pyatt_derekThanks to the our sponsorShownotesTo add to or modify these show notes please open a PR to show notes for episode 86

An international panel of PHP Community members discusses the stat of PHP User Groups. How to get involved, so of the pitfalls, and a lot of the benefits of being a part of the community.Panel Member:Andreas HeiglRafael DohmsRick KuipersBob BloomChris SpruckJoe FergusonBen RamseySara GolemonEric Van JohnsonLinks Discussed on the showhttps://twitter.com/taylorotwell/status/1537970285097275393https://php.ug/https://wiki.php.net/usergroupshttps://nashvillephp.org/https://phpamersfoort.nl/https://memphistechnology.org/https://atlantaphp.org/https://gtaphp.org/https://www.meetup.com/gta-php-user-group-toronto/https://bobbloom.me/gta-php-meetup-23jun2022Stay current with what we are doing by following and subscribing.Website: https://phproundtable.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/phproundtableTwitter: @phproundtableMastodon: @phproundtable@phpc.socialAudio Podcast: https://pca.st/usqnzuifDiscord: https://discord.gg/wmD3sGnMMe

Ben shared with us his experience being a Release Manager for PHP 8.1. We also talk about the voting process for Release Manager voting for 8.2 (https://externals.io/message/117716#117746). Congratulations to Sergey Panteleev and Pierrick Charron on becoming the Release Managers for PHP 8.2. We share our thoughts on how to follow along with discussions happening on PHP Internals. We also talk about PHP Internal's move to Github (https://github.com/php). What's been going on at the PHP Foundation. Joining PHP Social-verse and the overall Fediverse at https://phpc.social. The return of PHP in-person Meetups and Conferences and MergePHP - https://twitter.com/mergephp. Stay current with what we are doing by following and subscribing. Website: https://phproundtable.comYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/phproundtableTwitter: @phproundtable Maston: @phproundtable@phpc.socialAudio Podcast: https://pca.st/usqnzuifDiscord: https://discord.gg/wmD3sGnMMe

10 years of Laravel, and the framework continues to grow stronger with the passing of each release. More and more talented developers are creating packages and contributing to the overall health of Laravel. We talk with Eric Barnes, Matt Stauffer, and Taylor Otwell. We talk about conferences, kids, PHP, and so much more. 

Sammy opens the Roundtable back up. Everyone talks about what they've been doing for the past few years. What we are up to now. And what the future holds for The PHPRoundtable.

There have been lots of big changes happening with the PHP-FIG. Today we chat with a number of figgies to get the inside scoop on what has changed and also get a glimpse inside of the latest accepted standard, PSR-18: HTTP Client Interface.The PHP podcast is where everyone chimes in.Website: https://phproundtable.com/Youtube: https://youtube.com/phproundtableTwitter: @phproundtableThe PHP Roundtable is a podcast of web developers discussing PHP, JavaScript, community, open-source, and anything else PHP nerds care about. It is broadcast live from Google Hangouts On-Air. For complete show notes or to watch the episodes in video format visit PHPRoundtable.com. And join the conversation live! Just subscribe to the newsletter at www.phproundtable.com and never miss a live show.

We'll be deep-diving into some PHP internals goodness that you won't want to miss. We'll go behind the scenes of preloading, a possible foreign function interface (FFI), typed properties, a password hashing registry and more.The PHP podcast is where everyone chimes in.Website: https://phproundtable.com/Youtube: https://youtube.com/phproundtableTwitter: @phproundtableThe PHP Roundtable is a podcast of web developers discussing PHP, JavaScript, community, open-source, and anything else PHP nerds care about. It is broadcast live from Google Hangouts On-Air. For complete show notes or to watch the episodes in video format visit PHPRoundtable.com. And join the conversation live! Just subscribe to the newsletter at www.phproundtable.com and never miss a live show.

The first major piece of legislation that we've seen attempt to regulate how our personal information is handled on the web is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Today we chat with some panelists who have gone down the GDPR-compliance road and they are going to help us PHP devs understand how the GDPR affects us and what we can do to make sure our technology stack is as GDPR-compliant as possible. The PHP podcast is where everyone chimes in.Website: https://phproundtable.com/Youtube: https://youtube.com/phproundtableTwitter: @phproundtableThe PHP Roundtable is a podcast of web developers discussing PHP, JavaScript, community, open-source, and anything else PHP nerds care about. It is broadcast live from Google Hangouts On-Air. For complete show notes or to watch the episodes in video format visit PHPRoundtable.com. And join the conversation live! Just subscribe to the newsletter at www.phproundtable.com and never miss a live show.

We discuss DocBlocks, PSR-5, Annotations, reflection, automatic API documentation generation, and their future in PHP. The PHP podcast is where everyone chimes in. Website: https://phproundtable.com/Youtube: https://youtube.com/phproundtableTwitter: @phproundtable The PHP Roundtable is a podcast of web developers discussing PHP, JavaScript, community, open-source, and anything else PHP nerds care about. It is broadcast live from Google Hangouts On-Air. For complete show notes or to watch the episodes in video format visit PHPRoundtable.com. And join the conversation live! Just subscribe to the newsletter at www.phproundtable.com and never miss a live show.

Self-taught PHP programmers, even those of us with decades of experience, would likely fail a tech interview in an epic way. If you've ever wanted to work for a big tech company like Google, Amazon or Facebook but have always been too nervous about the tech interview, this episode is for you. We chat about what we need to do to be fully prepared for a tech interview. And maybe soon you'll be showing your friends how to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard.

PHP has had support for coroutines since PHP 5.5 and it allows you to do some really cool non-blocking stuff. We chat about concurrency in PHP and how we might be able to use it to speed up our apps.

New accessibility guidelines are coming down the pipe that will impact our apps with the new WCAG 2.1. We chat about what the guidelines are and how we can start preparing our apps for them.

Secrets, secrets, are no fun, all they do is cause pain when trying to deploy to production. By secrets, we're talking about database passwords, API keys, and other credentials that we want to keep from prying eyes. There are a number of solutions out there to keep our secrets out of the codebase and in a more secure area. We discuss the options we have for managing secrets and the tradeoffs for using them.

Static analysis is a fancy word to describe a tool that looks at our code and gives us helpful hints on how to improve it. We'll be discussing what static analyzers do, which tools the PHP community has access to, and how we can incorporate the tools into our daily development flow.

We finally unveil the super-secret project to the world! Listen in to find out what it is and how you can get your hands on one.

The next major version of PHP is here! PHP 7.2 comes with a nice set of upgrades, performance enhancements, and a brand new crypto library right out of the box. We discuss some of the features and breaking changes that we should be aware of before upgrading to PHP 7.2.

We chat about backwards compatibility, Gutenberg, and the WordPress ecosystem.

We're still alive! We come off our hiatus to have an informal catch-up session with some PHP friends. And proof of the secret PHP Roundtable project is revealed to Chris & Joe.

PHP is known for running really bad code really well. But it has a dirty little secret: deep within its code is a hidden "stack bomb". You can cause PHP to completely crash with just a few lines of code. Today we discuss why this happens and what we can do to fix the issue.

In an industry like software engineering where it seems like there's always something else to learn, it's easy to come down with a case of imposter syndrome. We chat about imposter syndrome's impact on the PHP community and contrast it with the Dunning-Kruger effect.

After years of resisting, SammyK finally drank the Docker Kool-Aid for his everyday client work. We talk about his transition from Vagrant to Docker and some bumps he hit along the way.

Adding tests to php-src is a great way to get involved with PHP internals. Don't know how to get started? You're in luck. TestFest 2017 is going to be a thing in September. User groups and individuals around the world are going to organize to learn how to add tests to PHP and become official internals contributors. It has been 7 years since the last TestFest in 2010. We chat about how to get involved with TestFest 2017.

We take a deep-dive into the underlaying structure of the the PHP source code and talk about the scanner, parser, the new AST layer (and the evil things we can do with it), and the Zend engine. Let's see how the PHP sausage is made!

We have a mashup recording with PHPUgly and PHP Town Hall during the community night at php[tek] 2017. We chat about OSMI, UUID's, git, product development, getting involved in the PHP community and funky socks.

We chat all things about the Laravel ecosystem.

Dependency Injection has been a design principle that the PHP community has embraced more fully than a lot of other programming communities. There's even an official PHP-FIG standard being discussed called PSR-11 which will standardize dependency injection containers. Today we chat all things dependency injection.

No matter how experienced you are as a programmer, at some point your app will generate errors and crash. Fixing problems with your app quickly is paramount in order to affect as little of your user base as possible. We discuss what is involved with implementing effective logging and crash reporting techniques in PHP to help you keep your apps up and running like a well-oiled machine.

PHP 7.1, the latest minor version of PHP, was released on December 1st. We discuss some things that went on behind-the-scenes that brought this new version to a stable release and we look at some new features that we can start taking advantage of today.

Guzzle has become the de-facto HTTP-client library for PHP. But recently a number of open source projects have been switching to HTTPlug which boasts itself as an HTTP-client abstraction. We chat about the problems HTTPlug aims to solve, the plans for its future and the reasons behind why some library maintainers have chosen to adopt it or not.

There's a lot more going on at Zend other than Zend Framework. We chat about the Zend ecosystem, from Apigility to Zend Certification and what Zend's role is in PHP internals.

There are two seemingly contradicting philosophies about how to charge clients for programming work. The hourly camp suggests that the client is paying for your skill and hiring you for your time. The value-based pricing camp suggests that the programmer should price a project based on its value to the client instead of the hours it will take to build it. Today we chat about these two ideas and discuss the pros and cons of both.

We chat about the open-source Behavior-Driven Development framework called Behat. We get a brief overview of how Behat can help us write more reliable code and also explore some best-practices when writing automated tests.

We chat about security in the the PHP community, encryption & hashing in PHP and a new-hotness crypto library called libsodium.

So you spend most of your time programming in PHP. You meet another programmer out in the wild. You begin explaining what you do. Do you find yourself using vague terms and actively trying to avoid the word "PHP?" Do you dread the question, "What language do you primarily code in?" Do you anticipate them scoffing at you when you say, "PHP?" We discuss why PHP has such a bad rep in the eyes of many and why some of us feel the need to start conversations with, "I use PHP but let me explain..."

Today the PHP Roundtable celebrates 2 years of generating nerdy discussions! We take a look behind the scenes of the PHP Roundtable podcast and chat with some nerds about what's going on the world of PHP.

Despite the fact that there was never an official release of PHP 6, it was going to be a real thing with a lot of great improvements to the engine and language. But why was this version of PHP never released? We talk with some previous and current internals developers to hear the story of what happened to PHP 6.

If you're just starting with programming & PHP, this episode is for you. We discuss some helpful tips to get you started with PHP programming such as some helpful learning resources and some common pitfalls to watch out for when learning to program.

We spend much of our time as developers managing the state in our applications. There are many different approaches and philosophies attributed to reading, mutating and storing state. The Event Sourcing pattern is an approach to managing application state. If we think of any given state of our app as a frame in a video, Event Sourcing allows us to scrub through past states of the app. Today we discuss what Event Sourcing is and how we can start integrating it into our PHP apps.

The demand for DevOps skills is growing more and more in modern web development. But all the hype and demand is met with myriad DevOps tools. Staying abreast of how these tools can help make our jobs easier can be daunting. So today we take a closer look at one of these tools called Docker which takes a microservices-architecture approach to managing your servers.

HTTP/1.1 will eventually be replaced by HTTP/2 so it's important for us PHP nerds to know all about the latest version of the HTTP protocol that's already running some of the internet's biggest websites. We discuss the things we need to know to start using HTTP/2 in our next PHP app. We also go briefly off topic to discuss the status of PHP 7.1 and the ramsey/uuid lib.

If you've ever gotten a number of weird looking characters in your database or on your website like, "�" and didn't know why, then this episode is for you. Those bizarre characters called "mojibake", rear their ugly heads when we don't account for a consistent character encoding. Today we discuss what character encoding is, how to accommodate for it in HTML, PHP & your database, and how we can ensure we'll never encounter an unexpected alien character in our web apps again.

We record live from main stage at php|tek in St. Louis, MO. We discuss speaking at conferences and recent events in PHP-FIG.

Async? Isn't that like AJAX in Javascript or something? Most PHP developers encounter asynchronous code for the first time in Javascript, but not many are aware that PHP can do async too. We discuss asynchronous programming in PHP and how we might be able to implement it in our own projects using various libraries. We also take a look at how async features could be added to PHP core to support async natively.

We record live from Lone Star PHP 2016 in Dallas, TX. We discuss what DI Containers aren't, tradeoffs to making things easy, how to improve your dev skills, repercussions of depending on Composer, PHP 7.1 features and we give away a white Confoo elePHPant.

The technologies that run the web are constantly changing. We discuss strategies for staying on top of the constant flux with continuous learning throughout your career, having mentors, engaging regularly with your peers, contributing to open source projects, voracious reading, and travel to programming events.

The PHP-FIG has really helped the PHP community get onboard the collaboration train with really great standards like the PSR-4 autoloading standard and the PSR-7 HTTP message interfaces. We discuss PSR-0 through PSR-13 and the process they go through to become standards. We also discuss where the FIG came from and the possible big changes coming to the organization soon.

Traditional relational databases like MySQL or Postgres are really good at providing many solutions to the problem of persisting state. But these types of database are really horrible at querying highly connected models in an efficient way. Graph databases like Neo4j and OrientDB excel at highly connected data. In fact, graph technologies are the backbone of social networks like Facebook and Twitter. We discuss how to think about our data using the graph model and what tools we can use in our PHP projects to interface with them. We also discuss the considerations we'll need to make when deciding whether or not to use a graph database in our next project.

We get an update on status of the project we discussed in part 1 and discuss next steps to take our dance event management app idea to production.

New features of PHP get added via the request for comments process. We chatting with a few RFC authors about what features they are proposing for the next major version of PHP.

Object-relational mapping (ORM) tools are a great way to model relational databases in your codebase. We discuss the benefits that ORM tools can add to our apps, some problems with the ORM model and where the PHP community seems to be heading when it comes to persisting data. We'll also discuss the opposing active record & data mapper paradigms.