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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the 23rd edition of #phpday, the international PHP conference in Italy, organised by @grusp.

I’ll be presenting a talk titled: "Better Debugging With Xdebug".

It's in Verona, Italy, on May 14-15th 2026.

You can use my speaker’s discount code "speaker_10OFF" for 10% off at https://www.phpday.it/tickets/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=post-speaker

#PHP #Xdebug #Debugging

The @grusp team has just published my talk "🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation" on YouTube, which I gave at the last #phpday edition.

Check it out here: https://youtu.be/VkeXOwK6gvU

The @grusp team has just published my talk “Custom PHPStan Rules: Automate Standards and Save Time” from #phpday

Custom PHPStan rules amplify the benefits of @phpstan and they are not as difficult as you might think to write. I created 3 in this talk https://youtu.be/1tOSnuxCcRY

Time to come up with that #PHPDay abstract... /cc @grusp

Hai partecipato a #phpday e senti ancora l'entusiasmo della community? 🍹
Se #Laravel è la tua passione, questa l'occasione per andare dall'altra parte del podio!

Candidati come speaker!
👉 https://www.laravelday.it/welcome/cfp.html

Ecco i filoni principali su cui il nostro comitato scientifico seleziona i talk

🧰 Best practice
🏗️ Architetture e ottimizzazioni
🌏 Laravel environment
🤕 Case study
Vogliamo leggere la tua proposta!

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laravelday 2025 - 9° edizione
📍 Verona | 📅 20 Novembre 2025

#phpday is coming to an end and I've more than doubled my elephant collection

@akrabat now showing what has changed in #OAuth since 2012. #phpday

Rob Allen standing in front of a projector slide listing the most important OAuth improvements since 2.0

@Girgias I'm re-evaluating `ArrayObject` as "extremely useful" from now on:

```php
class A { public readonly int $v; }
$a = new A;
$b = new ArrayObject($a);
$b['v'] = 'hello';
$b['v'] = 'world';
echo $a->v; //"world"
```
https://3v4l.org/5UYWZ

#phpday

@Girgias ( ｡ •̀ ᴖ •́ ｡) (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ #phpday

Slide showing PHP `$a = "5d9"; $a++; $a++;` causing `$a` to become a string, then a floating point value

@Girgias showing us the impressive amount of work happening under the PHP foundation, as well as some horrible language quirks that still affect us nowadays. #phpday

Gina standing in front of a projector slide showing general PHP foundation project statistics

Luigi Cardamone telling strategies for preventing the "files divided by type" mess that most PHP frameworks (erroneously) teach us. #phpday

Luigi in front of a projector slide showing a directory tree of PHP files divided by business features, making the distance between logically close related files smaller.

Next: Luigi Pecorella teaches us about Friûl and its language, as well as how they re-organised a DB without FKs to reduce complexity and improve performance. #phpday

Luigi standing in front of a projector slide showing Friuli on the italian map, together with wine and frico, both traditional of the region.

Now @asgrim from @roave, talking about #PIE, the #PHP extension installer, which will replace PECL in the future.

Good investment by the PHP foundation and the sovereign tech fund! #phpday

James Titcumb in front of a projector slide showing an example `composer.json` with extension dependencies (and configuration flags thereof) declared.

Next: @theseer talking about #SBOM - very compliance-intensive talk. #phpday

Arne in front of a projector slide with examples of a CPE (Common Platform Enumeration) identifier by NIST

If your slide deck features The Toe Funk Hipster Man™, your slides are bad and you should feel bad.

#phpDay

The "torchlight" approach to software development: go through known layers that are in use by a modified component, so you are focused on only the bits you need to touch. #phpday