PHP - Then, Now and Soon

And Drupal’s place in the new PHP order.

PHP has made possible many of the awesome frameworks and CMS’s in use today. Because of these software, PHP enjoys being one of the most widely used programming languages. But PHP did not have such a bright childhood. We’ll discuss how PHP grew up to be one of the most popular languages and is turning mature for large scale applications. In particular, we will discuss how Drupal is opening up to the modern PHP world.

Target Audience

Anyone who wants to understand how PHP is evolving and how Drupal is keeping up.

Outline

History of PHP

Separate Projects

None or little collaboration

Extremely difficult to reuse

PEAR for reusability

PHP Renaissance

Namespaces and autoloading

PHP-FIG

PSR’s

PSR-0, PSR-4

PSR-1, PSR-2

Upcoming PSR’s

composer

Drupal and other components

composer

Workflow

Symfony components

HTTP Kernel

Dependency Injection

Other components

PHPUnit

Other Components

symfony/yaml

symfony/event-dispatcher

symfony/validator

Others

The Future

Composer driven workflow

Component future