Working Together on the Future of PHP The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

For those who don't know our new Executive Director, Elizabeth Barron, she's written an introductory post on The PHP Foundation Blog that shares a bit about her background, her vision for the future, and how you can share your own PHP thoughts with her.

#php #phpc

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Community Corner Podcast: The Trust Protocol with Nia Luckey | PHP Architect In this episode, Scott talks with the trust protocol with @nialuckey7652 and her keynote at @phptek 2026. Links: Our Discord - https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts -…

The newest episode of the #communityCornerPodcast is out for your viewing/listening pleasure. We talk to Nia Luckey about her keynote at #phptek/#jstek this year and the book she's writing on the "Trust Protocol."

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Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

We’re excited to welcome Elizabeth Barron as the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation! 🐘 💜

Elizabeth brings PHP community roots, open-source governance experience from GitHub & CHAOSS, and a passion for making PHP thrive for decades to come.

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Community Corner: The Activated Leader with Lilah Jones | PHP Architect In this episode, Scott talks with Lilah Jones about the Activated Leader, how it can help navigate change, and her keynote at #phptek 2026. Links: Our Discord - https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our…

A new episode of #communityCornerPodcast is out! We talk to Lilah Jones about the Activated Leader, how it can help navigate change, and her keynote at #phptek 2026. www.phparch.com/podcast/comm... #phpc #phptek #podcast

What's New in Private Packagist, February 2026 Update Private Packagist has continued to evolve over the past three months with significant improvements to authentication flows, security hardening, and notification capabilities. Here are the highlights f...

🚀 Private Packagist February update: Redesigned login flow, team member MFA resets for org owners, new Microsoft Teams Workflow notifications (old connectors deprecated), clickable composer search URLs in your terminal blog.packagist.com/whats-new-in... #composerphp #php #phpc

Stop Copy-Pasting SQL Queries (This ONE Database Feature Changes Everything) 🚨 Copying the same SQL query across your codebase? You're setting yourself up for bugs. In this video, @scottKeckWarrens shows you how database views eliminate query duplication and keep your…

My newest video is out on the @phparch@phparch.social #youtube channel. I go over how you can use #database #views to reduce bugs and make your code more maintainable.

#phpc #php #postgresql #mysql #softwareengineering #databasedesign

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PHP 8.6’s clamp() Will Clean Up Your Code! Even though we just got PHP 8.5, work is already underway for PHP 8.6.

New #phpc blog post alert. My thoughts about the #php86 clamp() function are linked below. Spoiler alert: I'm a fan

#php #softwareengineering #tecktok #coding

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Why Your PHP Dates Keep Breaking (And How to Fix It) | PHP Architect If you've ever spent hours debugging a date-related bug only to discover that some code somewhere modified a DateTime object you thought was safe, you know the pain. DateTime in PHP is mutable, which…

My new video on the #phpc DateTimeImmutable function is out on the #phparch YouTube channel. Come, let me know where I got it wrong!

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I'm Speaking at PHPTek 2026! | Scott Keck-Warren Excited to return to PHPTek 2026 in Chicago with two talks on Advanced SQL and Taming Time in PHP. Get your tickets now for May 19-21, 2026!

New #blog today. I'm VERY excited to announce that I'm speaking at #phptek again in 2026 and there are some really amazing speakers lined up (several of whom I've interviewed on the #communityCornerPodcast).

#phpc #softwareengineering #devops #ai

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Release 1.3.0 · php/pie 1.3.0 Total issues resolved: 12 Total pull requests resolved: 37 Total contributors: 14 bug 426: Remove timeouts on all process invocations except those potentially using sudo thanks to @asgrim ...

🥧 PIE 1.3.0 is fresh out of the oven! 🎉

This release brings a bunch of new features & fixes, including:

- Support for PHP 8.5
- Non-interactive `pie install`
- Enabled immutable releases on GitHub
- Plus many more bugfixes & improvements

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#php #phpc #phppie #thephpf

PHP 8.5 Released PHP 8.5 is a major update of the PHP language, with new features including the URI Extension, Pipe Operator, and support for modifying properties while cloning.

How cool is the PHP 8.5 release features page? www.php.net/releases/8.5... 😎 very modern and shiny #php #phpc #thephpfoundation #thephpf

In Amsterdam next week and part of a group underrepresented at tech confs, or can't afford a ticket? Private Packagist is sponsoring #SymfonyCon (Nov 27th/28th) and we have a ticket to give away: Reply your favorite PHP8.5 feature to win #php #phpc #symfony @symfony.com

The Secret Header That Makes Your PHP App 10x More Secure | PHP Architect As developers in the year 2025, keeping our systems and applications secure is of the utmost importance. One of the most common ways that attackers can make our applications less secure is by using a…

My newest educational video on the #ContentSecurityPolicy is out on the @phparch #youtube channel. It's a powerful tool that can really increase the #security of your #SaaS applications.

#phpc #phparch

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What’s New in Private Packagist, November Update We've shipped several important updates to Private Packagist over the past three months, including more insights on the package usage tracking page, the introduction of Trusted Publishing for secure a...

New in Private Packagist: Usage Tracking can now help prioritize security updates by showing how deps cascade through projects and where vulnerable versions are used. Trusted Publishing for GitHub Actions and better synchronization setup. blog.packagist.com/whats-new-in... #php #phpc #composerphp

Strengthening PHP Supply Chain Security with a Transparency Log for Packagist.org The release of Composer 2.9 this week introduced new security features on the Composer CLI client, which were funded by Private Packagist through service subscriptions. But in parallel, we are working...

After Composer 2.9 CLI security improvements, we're working on a transparency log for Packagist to strengthen PHP supply chain security, funded by the @sovereign.tech with help of the @thephpf.bsky.social and Private Packagist. Details at blog.packagist.com/strengthenin... #php #phpc #composerphp

Composer 2.9 Release We are pleased to announce the release of Composer 2.9.0, bringing improvements to security, repository management from the CLI, and lots more. Automatic Security Blocking Composer now automaticall...

Composer 2.9 is here! 🚀 It automatically blocks packages with known vulnerabilities, has a new repository command to manage repos from the CLI, and lots more!

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#composerphp #phpc #PHP

#PHP 8.5 adds backtraces to errors so we can more easily track down problems. This is one of the features I think is going to be a game-changer for tracking down errors.

Learn about more of the new features at youtu.be/Wmsy2O_WysA

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The PHP Foundation is Seeking a New Executive Director The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

The PHP Foundation is Seeking a New Executive Director! 🐘💜

We're asking the PHP community to help find the right person for this role. If you know someone who would be an excellent fit, please encourage them to apply or reach out to us directly.

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PHP Conference Brazil celebrates it's 20th year in 3 weeks.

It's the longest living PHP Conference in LATAM and we'd love if you could help us by posting a short celebration post, pic or video in the social media of your choice.

If you do, thank you in advance and please let me know by PMing […]

Release 2.9.0-RC1 · composer/composer Composer 2.9 is ready for a release, and we need your help to test it and report any regression. Please try it out! Running composer self-update --preview will get you the 2.9.0-RC1 Running compos...

Composer 2.9 is coming, and there's an RC to try out! We need your help and feedback github.com/composer/com... #composerphp #phpc

📑New paper from our Cambridge Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit researchers

🔗Read the full paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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#PHPC #CEU #COVID19 #Research #Cardiovascular

The research, published in Public Health, highlights major data gaps across England and Wales and calls for national standards and consistent data collection to better understand the value of these initiatives.

#Research #PCU #PHPC #SocialCare

The longest 57 minutes of the week...

#ai #claudecode #claude #vibecoding #phpc

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Checking out Charles from @roave.com speaking about Database Testing! #longhornphp #php #phpc #testing #databases

It was a fiddly start, but PhpStorm and I are friends now. Thanks, #phpc.

Stop Manual Refactoring: Automate Your PHP Upgrades with Rector | PHP Architect One of the more challenging parts of coding is making sure we're constantly refactoring our code to make it easier to maintain. It's also a pain to try and keep up with all of the deprecated features…

My newest video on #rectorphp 2.x is out on the @phparch YouTube channel. Come see how you can use it to automate upgrades, replace deprecated #php features, and automate #refactorings across branches.

#phpc #softwareengineering #coding

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#PHP85 adds two functions for retrieving the first and last values of an array. They are `array_first()` and `array_last()` respectively, and they work more or less like you would expect them to.

Learn about more of the new features at youtu.be/Wmsy2O_WysA

#phpc #php #softwareenginnering

I've reached the point of packing for #longhornphp where I pack stuff in case I'm bored when that's clearly not going to be a problem. #phpc

Good morning dear meatsacks that observe my internet words. I have entered Sky Tube 1 of 2 in preparation for the corporeal relocation to @longhornphp.com . Thank you for your attention on this matter. #php #phpc #phpcommunity #longhornphp #longhornphp2025

Longhorn PHP Longhorn PHP is a 3-day conference in Austin, TX to help PHP and other web developers level up their craft and connect with the larger PHP community.

#phpc #developers @longhornphp.com is this week and tickets are still available! If you aren't in the Austin area, there's a virtual ticket option.

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