An overview of the latest news and interesting developments across PHP from September 2018: new language features, RFCs, community news, upcoming conferences, and the latest versions of popular frameworks and platforms.
4. CMSes: WordPress
Starting Work on v5.0
● Plan to have Gutenberg merged into v5.0 Core
● wordpress.org/news/2018/10/the-month-in-wordpress-september-2018
6. Frameworks - Laravel
Laravel 5.7 Released!
● Flatter directory structure for Resources
● Better error messages
● “Dump Server” (a port of VarDumper Server from Symfony 4.1)
● laravel-news.com/laravel-5-7-is-now-released
Laravel 5.6.(36-38)
● github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.6/CHANGELOG-5.6.md
7. Frameworks - Symfony
Symfony Panther
● A Functional Testing & Web Scraping tool
○ Think “Selenium for Symfony”
● Facebook PHP WebDriver
● Chromedriver
● symfony.com/blog/introducing-symfony-panther-a-browser-testing-and-web-s
crapping-library-for-php
8. PHP: The Right Way
● Nothing new in September
○ And that’s OK!
● Note: Every open-source project can use
your help with documentation. What are
you waiting for?
9. PHP Conferences
php[world] 2018
Washington, DC - 11/14-15
world.phparch.com
Sunshinephp 2019
Miami, FL - 2/7-9
sunshinephp.com
MidwestPHP 2019
Bloomington, MN - 3/8-9
CFP through 11/15 - cfp.midwestphp.org
2019.midwestphp.org
PHP Yorkshire 2019
York, UK - 4/11-13
CFP through 11/16 - cfp.phpyorkshire.co.uk
phpyorkshire.co.uk
LonghornPHP 2019
Austin, TX - 4/18-20
CFP site not yet up
longhornphp.com
Flyover Camp KC
Kansas City, MO - 5/31-6/02
flyovercamp.org
10. Nomad PHP (Online) - October 18
Nomad PHP EU - 01:00 PM CDT
Pipelined
● Mike Willbanks (@mwillbanks)
● beta.nomadphp.com/live/5LDXN7X0dOgo
MM268uiMeM/Pipelined
Nomad PHP US - 08:00 PM CDT
WebSockets in PHP
● John Fansler (@johncurt82)
● beta.nomadphp.com/live/5iunRcUp5msek
c60KE64UI/-Websockets-in-PHP
11. Hacktoberfest
● Earn a cool t-shirt
● Submit 5 Open Source PRs on Github in
October
● No spammy PRs!
● Register by Oct 31 at
hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
12. Magento Squashtoberfest
● Earn Magento swag!
● During October
● Submit five or more pull requests to
github.com/magento or validate 10 or
more issues on github.com/magento
● magento.com/blog/technical/are-you-ready
-for-magento-squashtoberfest-2018
13. Next Month in KCPHPUG
November 2018
● TBD
Slack: https://php.ug/slackinvite #kcphpug