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RE: https://phpc.social/@thephpf/116142771167684436

I’m so excited @elizabeth will lead @thephpf as its next Executive Director! She has such a passion and enthusiasm for open source communities, as well as a wealth of experience in governing, steering, and leading them.

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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.

thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02...

#php #phpc

Laminas Project - Call for Contributors Call for Contributors

Many devs use Laminas and Mezzio, but unfortunately few contribute behind the scenes. We have stepped up, so you should too!
#PHP #Mezzio
https://getlaminas.org/blog/2026-01-14-call-for-contributors.html

Early bird pricing for @phptek tickets ends on January 31st!

Come see me and a whole host of better speakers in Chicago in May giving talks on all things PHP!

(There’s also a virtual ticket, but I’d love to meet you in person.)

https://phptek.io

#PHP #PHPTek

What are the most heavily-trafficked sites using PHP? Go broad—think global, not just the usual Bay Area suspects.

Facebook and Slack are the obvious top contenders, but they both use Hack (a PHP derivative) rather than standard PHP, these days.

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Proud to announce we just renewed our annual $18,000 sponsorship for the The PHP Foundation!

Check out this summary on the work completed in 2025. So much more could be accomplished, if all businesses using PHP contributed. Sign up as a sponsor and help moving PHP forward!

new in php 8.5: attributes can now take static closures as arguments — this is huge btw.. tons of possibilities: middlewares as attributes, authorization as attributes, and more!

🚀 #PHP 8.5 released with major improvements: new URI extension, Pipe operator |>, property modification during cloning, NoDiscard attribute & performance boosts. Built for modern development workflows #WebDev #BackendDev www.php.net/releases/8....

Docker images for #PHP 8.5 are available!
https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/php/8.5.0/images/sha256-e2fdf60e02172b093389e86a42b935ea1ac74a470ebcffb3cd12783d1193ca30

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.

#PHP 8.5 has been released!
URI Extension, pipe operator, closures in constant expressions, the usual performance improvements (as well as CPU-intensive performance improvements through JIT optimization), and more!
www.php.net/releases/8.5...

Stitcher.io A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

PHP 8.5 was released today.

Here's a great recap of what it includes:

stitcher.io/blog/new-in-...

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PHP 8.5 Released With New Pipe Operator, New URI Extension & Clone With PHP 8.5 is out today as the annual major feature release for this popular scripting language.

PHP 8.5 Released With New Pipe Operator, New URI Extension & Clone With

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www.phoronix.com/news/P...

Dear #php, happy release-day and all the best for 8.5 (#php85)! 🥳
Thanks for all the work and another major step forward.
https://www.php.net/releases/8.5/en.php

PS: Of course the new release is available in all our regular #webhosting packages starting today! #SpeedPartner […]

RE: https://phpc.social/@thephpf/115526019992520326

Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!

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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.

thephp.foundation/blog/2025/11... #phpc #php

PHP Tek 2026: Call for Speakers Welcome to PHP Tek 2026 where we combine leadership, expertise, and networking in one event. A relaxing atmosphere for tech leaders and developers to ...

Psst…I’m not sure whether this is public knowledge, but the PHP Tek CfP is still open until 23:59 tomorrow (Nov 2) night. It was supposed to close last night, but some of us are slackers.

Submit your talks!

https://sessionize.com/php-tek-2026

#PHP #PHPTek

Larvavel is a community Framework 🤌

Today is the day to submit your talk proposals to @phparch.com’s PHP Tek conference! The CfP closes today!

phptek.io#speakers

#PHP #PHPTek

I had the opportunity to chat with @asgrim.dev yesterday about PHP Pie - the new installer for PHP extensions, intended to replace PECL.

Full interview dropping tomorrow.

#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

🐘 When you stop working around inconsistencies and start working to improve them, you move from being a user to builder.

In this clip from PHPUK 2025, Gina Banyard explains the role of The PHP Foundation, as our 'insurance policy'

▶️ youtu.be/ebyRKIk3iRI

#PHP #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #PHPUK

I'll take simple and readable #PHP or #JavaScript code over "clever" looking code any day and twice on Sunday.

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.

Early bird pricing for #LonghornPHP ends tomorrow. This is probably the least expensive ticket to any North American #PHP conference you can get, so get yours before Saturday! Your career will thank you.

See you there!

https://longhornphp.com

We are having another one of our "Mystery Guest" episodes for this week's @phparch.com Podcast. The mystery is how we let this person talk us into letting them on the show. Come check it and hang out with us at 3 PM PST (about 35 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlNXoKdH8jQ

Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

We're proud to have Laravel joining us again as a Platinum sponsor! Laravel's elegant PHP framework has transformed how developers build web applications. Come speak with their team at Longhorn PHP to learn about the latest in the Laravel ecosystem!

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This year, @alenaholligan will be presenting a tutorial and a talk - join us on Thursday for her tutorial "Bridge the Testing Gap: Mastering BDD with Codeception for Cross-Team Success" to master BDD Fundamentals!

Get tickets at longhornphp.com

Longhorn PHP A 3-day conference to help PHP developers level up their craft and connect with the larger PHP community.

Heads up! Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to get Early Bird pricing on tickets to Longhorn PHP - which means prices go up on Saturday! You do not want to miss our amazing lineup of speakers or this great chance to network with your peers! Grab tickets before the price goes up - longhornphp.com

🚨 PSA for #PHP package maintainers: DO NOT REPLACE tags! If you messed up a release simply do another. No matter how quickly you notice a mistake, automatic tools already pulled the original tag, triggered automatic updates. Users will never know you recreated the tag and use the broken state. #phpc

🚨 Warning to #PHP package maintainers: We did not email you to change your passwords & 2FA. Emails asking you to update your credentials are a phishing attempt. We had the phishing site & domain taken down. If you got the email and entered your credentials, please contact us. #phpc

Yuri, Larry, and Chris look on and Jacques records a video, as Jeremy applies a WurstCon sticker to a door.

The Yesterdog counter. On the wall is the Yesterdog menu and a lot of memorabilia. There are also t-shirts hanging for sale.

5 hot dogs on a tray

Jeremy, Yuri, Larry, and Brent.

Photos from a special edition of #WurstCon, celebrating the life of Ryan Weaver