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STATE OF THE ART IN THE PHP WORLD: PANEL & DISCUSSION
Join a panel discussion on the latest advancements in the PHP world, covering state-of-the-art technologies, syntax improvements, and community-driven developments, and learn about the roadmaps for upcoming PHP releases.
- The state of PHP is currently mature, and the foundation is actively working on evolution, improvement, and modernization.
- The biggest change in PHP has been the addition of typed arrays.
- There are three main areas to focus on for PHP: syntax changes, library and framework improvements, and evolution of PHP’s ecosystem.
- PHP has a strong culture of contribution and innovation, with many volunteers working on PHP’s development, bug fixes, and documentation.
- The IFC (Internals Fix and Coding) process is a community-driven effort to improve PHP internals, focusing on bug fixing and stability.
- PHP 8.1 is considered a stable release and 8.2 and 8.3 are upcoming releases.
- Modernizing PHP’s syntax to a more statically typed language is an active topic of discussion.
- PHP uses the ZTS (Zend Transactional Storage) extension for database persistence, but its usage is limited by performance.
- PHP’s development focus has shifted from just making changes to focus on improving stability and consistency.
- Typed arrays have introduced stability improvements in PHP, allowing more accurate debugging and error reporting.
- There are various tools available to assist in PHP development, such as error handling and type hinting, allowing developers to catch errors earlier and increase overall performance.
- The PHP development community has evolved, with a larger and more diverse group of contributors actively involved.
- PHP has various ways of handling dependencies and Composer is widely used for package management.