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Modernizing PHP one edge case at a time - Gina Banyard

PHP is what one can call a truly organic language, in that it was never designed from scratch. And at 30 years old it has shown to be a reliable programming language which powers most of the web, but not just. However, it also has some quirky behaviours and edge cases that still linger and are waiting to be discovered. So join me in this fun talk where we will explore some of PHP's utterly baffling behaviours, and how some of them have been fixed after being discovered in recent versions of PHP.

February 19, 2025