As folks who've attended @merge probably already know, we're back for 2025! Mark your calendars (and buy your Blind Bird tickets at https://longhornphp.com) for Thursday-Saturday, October 23-25 at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown, and submit your presentation topics to https://cfp.longhornphp.com.

We're excited to bring the conference back for our sixth (and PHP's 30th) year, and hope all y'all will join us, in-person or online.

My interview with @asgrim is out on the #communityCornerPodcast where we discuss the PHP Installer for Extensions which, I think, it going to change how I deploy my applications.

https://www.phparch.com/podcast/community-corner-php-installer-for-extensionspie-with-james-titcumb/

#phpc #podcast #devops

The block list and instructions for the JetBrains brick #elePHPant is here!

https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/phpstorm/docs/lego-instruction.pdf

h/t @sebastian

#PHP

@ramsey https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/phpstorm/docs/lego-instruction.pdf

Looking forward to building this #Lego #elePHPant I got at #PHPverse

Got lucky and ran into @rdohms in the KLM lounge on my way home from Amsterdam, and #phpverse. We hadn't spoken in a while so it was good to catch up.

No selfie.

#php #30YearsOfPHP

Communities around the world, let's celebrate PHP's 30th anniversary by joining forces around https://haphpy-birthday.net! Before participating in the collaborative video, add your logo to the site and spread the word.

Good bye Amsterdam and happy birthday again #PHP!

JetBrains PHPVerse was a blast. So many interesting people. Thanks to its vibrant community PHP is more relevant than ever.

Had a great time hosting #PHPVerse 2025 and celebrating 30 years of PHP!! Thanks @brendt and thanks for letting me quiz you 😉 @dunglas @nicolasgrekas @marcelpociot @cheukting_ho @taylorotwell Jeffrey Povilas @kbond @pronskiy @Girgias #phpc #php

So long MVC…
https://getlaminas.org/blog/2025-06-06-laminas-mvc-is-retiring.html
#Laminas #Mezzio

"PHP: 30 years of generating strings on the server." --@jetbrains

#JetBrainsPHPverse2025 #PHP #30YearsOfPHP

A big welcome to those new users here thanks to the #PHPVerse mentioning phpc.social :)

half way through 2025 and we finally upgraded production systems to #php 8.1. The slow moving pace of real world work astounds me.

Do you know that PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions) has been tagged 1.0.0 today? 🎉

https://github.com/php/pie

#php #phpverse #30YearsOfPHP

🙌 Thank you @phpstorm for organizing this fantastic #PHPVerse 2025 🐘

We're thrilled to celebrate 30 years of #PHP and 20 years of #Symfony with you and the entire community 🥳

What a year! 🎂

#opensource #community #webdevelopment

It's the #PHPVerse afterparty at #AmsterdamPHP!

I'm really proud of what we managed to do with #PHPverse today. Thank you everyone ❤️

👏 What a day at #JetBrainsPHPverse2025!

A huge shoutout to @nicolasgrekas , for representing Symfony and sharing his insights with the global PHP community 🙌

Thanks to @jetbrains for putting together such a stellar celebration of PHP’s 30th birthday! 🐘🎉

#Symfony #PHP #OpenSource #JetBrains #PHPverse
https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/

Impressed with how amazing @naderman is doing presenting at the #PHPverse event.

Great questions, great pacing.

Core memories thinking of PHP:

- PhpMyAdmin and phpBB(2)
- Using an index.php that includes another script based on a query param. To not allow direct execution of the script, the index.php would define a constant and the script check for its existence.
- register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc and how long it took to eventually get it deprecated.

#php #JetBrainsPHPverse2025