title	conference	date
Avoid Costly Framework Upgrades	International PHP Conference Berlin 2026	2026-06-08
Claims that framework swaps stop being year‑long rewrites once controllers and models are decoupled: replace extends AbstractController with constructor… Talk on
Upgrading Legacy to the Latest PHP Version	phpday 2024	2024-05-16
Claims a proven upgrade path for codebases up to four million lines, moving 5.3–5.6 to PHP 7 then 8 without feature-freeze by: running static analysis with… Talk on
Rewriting Legacy Code	phpday 2021	2021-06-08
Five concrete migration strategies are explained: version upgrade, progressive rewrite, framework swap, refactoring and full rewrite, with when to pick each… Talk on
Web application security (Part 1)	Web Summer Camp 2018	2018-08-29
A hands-on PHP security workshop that shows concrete fixes: replace string-concatenated queries with prepared statements (demo of "1 OR 1=1" SQLi and Symfony… Talk on
Web application security (Part 2)	Web Summer Camp 2018	2018-08-29
Demonstrates concrete PHP checks and fixes: run composer security advisories via curl to spot known package CVEs; disable DTD/entity loading to stop XML… Talk on
Rewriting 15-Year-Old Code	Build Stuff 2017	2017-11-15
A practical playbook for fixing old web apps: module-by-module rewrites, not risky full rewrites, with an actual billing module rewritten in about a 40-hour… Talk on
Panel Discussion: The Future of PHP	code.talks 2017	2017-09-28
Panelists report concrete shifts: PHP 7 delivers roughly 2x+ throughput on real projects, PHP 6 was abandoned during Unicode work, and HHVM pushed performance… Panel on
Rewriting 15-Year-Old Code	code.talks 2017	2017-09-28
Claim: full rewrites almost always fail; progressive, feature-by-feature rewrites succeed. Concrete evidence: a codebase with 1.5 million lines, 5,000 classes… Talk on
ERD Flowcharts and other documentation	Dutch PHP Conference 2017	2017-06-29
A call‑for‑papers example maps three actors — speaker attendee organizer — into a context data‑flow diagram that shows eight inputs and outputs; drilling down… Talk on
API Tips from the Frontline	International PHP Conference Spring 2017	2017-05-29
Practical rules and concrete defaults: use JSON in the body with Content-Type application/json, put results under a data key, paginate by default (page size… Talk on
Unit Testing by Example	PHP UK Conference 2017	2017-02-16
Concrete how-to and measurable wins: start by writing a failing test for a discovered bug (example: make quantity 0.1 round up to 1), add tests when changing… Talk on
Unit Testing by Example	FrOSCon 2015	2015-08-22
Concrete, runnable recipes and PHP examples that show what to assert and why: parses-from-CSV as an interface-first exercise, tests that catch a 0.1 quantity… Talk on
How to Motivate Your Developers	FrOSCon 2015	2015-08-22
Argues that concrete fixes win: a Quebec study finds salary ranks first, so resolve pay early; give adapted tools like profilers and paid licenses to remove… Talk on
Rewriting 12-Year-Old Code	FrOSCon 2015	2015-08-22
Progressive rewrites replace fragile PHP3/PHP5.3 spaghetti one page or module at a time, using mod_rewrite routing to send legacy URLs to Symfony controllers… Talk on
ERD, Flowcharts and Other Documentation	FrOSCon 2012	2012-08-25
Diagrams prove useful by showing concrete decisions not vague topics: an ERD maps tables and composite keys, a data‑flow diagram forces matching inputs and… Talk on
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