PHP UK Conference 2026
2026-02-20
London, United Kingdom
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who it's for
PHP developers, backend developers, API developers, security engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, open source maintainers
topics
custom PHPStan rules; testing event-driven systems; building native apps with PHP; debugging with interactive debuggers; OWASP Top 10 for APIs; open source sustainability strategies; PHP and generative AI projects; observability four pillars; API Platform for REST and GraphQL; networking fundamentals for PHP; value objects in PHP; PHP performance measurement and optimisation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| It Depends | Gary Hockin | 34m |
A consultant-sized set of tradeoffs with concrete data and tools: a live voting app written by Claude Code in Laravel plus React and Reveal.js polls that… | ||
| Crafting Custom PHPStan Rules | Ondrej Mirtes | 54m |
Custom PHPStan rules actually enforce concrete constraints, not vague style guides: demos include a new Person rule that flags direct instantiation (and is… | ||
| From Events to Insights: Testing and Documenting Event‑Based Software | Sebastian Bergmann | 50m |
Event‑sourced examples reconstruct a bank account from an event stream and tests written in PHP using PHPUnit adopt a given-when-then API to assert emitted… | ||
| Building Native Apps with PHP | Simon Hamp | 32m |
Claims that PHP is compiled and run natively on iOS and Android, not just a web view, with a Laravel/Composer workflow; a demoable runtime called native PHP… | ||
| Saving Time by Using a Debugger | Derick Rethans | 49m |
Concrete Xdebug 3.5 details and demos: how Xdebug 3.5 Native Path Mapping puts path maps in a .xdebug directory so mappings are commitable, how Xdebug info and… | ||
| Securing Your API: The OWASP Top 10 | Rob Allen | 35m |
Claim: 57% of organizations have suffered an API related data breach and the OWASP API Security Top 10 (revised 2023) is used as the checklist. Recommendations… | ||
| No OSS, No Users: Why Investing in Open Source Matters | Pauline Vos | 30m |
Companies pay engineers to run the OSS that makes their product usable and measurable outcomes follow: dedicated teams maintain MongoDB PHP extension and… | ||
| Everything Is Showbiz: Lessons from a PHP + AI Side Project | Paul Conroy | 46m |
This talk grew out of a side project that got wildly out of hand. I set out to build a quick Laravel app to make one of my favourite podcasts searchable - just… | ||
| The Four Pillars of Observability | Florian Engelhardt | 27m |
CSV upload API shows P95 latency slowly creeping up; metrics (CPU, memory, DB, PHP‑FPM) look normal but logs only record CSV import finished messages; tracing… | ||
| API Platform: From Rest & GraphQL APIs to state-of-the-art standards in seconds | Vincent Amstoutz | 34m |
Claims that an API appears in seconds become concrete: a Symfony CLI demo creates a Book entity, switches to SQLite, runs migrations and immediately serves… | ||
| Packets, Protocols and PHP: Networking Fundamentals for Developers | Jessica ‘Zhanna’ Malekos Smith | 30m |
Shows the concrete surprises and fixes: a single PHP call triggers DNS lookups, TCP/UDP transport, MTU fragmentation and routing; expect MTU ≈1500 bytes… | ||
| PHP, Value Objects and You 🫵 | Daniel Leech | 34m |
Claims that value objects make PHP code more expressive and less buggy with concrete patterns: prefer the constructor and immutability over mutable setters… | ||
| PHP Performance Demystified - Measure, Understand, Optimise | Volker Dusch | 39m |
Shows concrete claims and reproducible numbers not vague promises: boot time ~40 ms, opcache default entries 16,183 and can be raised to 100,000, JIT helps… | ||
| Stepping away from the code... but not quite... | Wim Godden | 29m |
Starts coding at seven and actually builds GNET (a pre‑Google search submission tool) with a Windows API on PHP 3.0, grows it to 57,000 members, runs PHP ads… | ||
| Escaping the Code Maze | Yannick Chenot | 29m |
Claims that applying the Closed-by-Default Principle shrinks a class’s implicit assumptions from about ten down to two by using language features (final, typed… | ||
| Event-Driven Evolution with AI as my Partner in Design | Naomi Gotts | 43m |
Legacy Laravel application evolves to an event‑sourced model using Gemini as a design partner, producing concrete decisions: emit events to AWS EventBridge… | ||
| PHP & AI: Beyond the Hype | Christopher Hertel | 47m |
Symfony AI ships as a set of PHP components with ~85 packages and over 100 contributors and exposes concrete features: a platform bridge layer for… | ||
| Know Your Enemies: Live Exploit of a PHP Engine Security Breach | Alexandre Daubois | 45m |
Shows two concrete engine failures with working demos: a null byte termination in fsockopen lets a PHP string with %00 bypass a host suffix check and fetch an… | ||
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