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Nicolas Grekas
@nicolasgrekas
https://externals.io/
message/118040
Symfony, PHP and its Foundation
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PHP leads the web
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• Apple
• Facebook
• Pfizer
• Flipkart
• Slack
• Spotify
• Etsy
• etc. etc. etc.
PHP leads the web
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How many contributors
were paid to work on
the PHP engine in 2021?
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PHP’s Bus Factor
Dmitry Stogov Nikita Popov
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Surviving buses
May 4, 2021: Blog post by Joe Watkins
May 20, 2021: JetBrains reaches out to Joe
Nov. 22, 2021: Nikita announces he leaves JetBrains
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JetBrains
Does it make sense to look for a replacement
and pay for just one developer again?
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Founding companies
Acquia
Automattic
Craft CMS
JetBrains
Laravel
PrestaShop
Private Packagist
Symfony
Tideways
Zend by Perforce
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We support,
advance,
and develop
the PHP language
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“The PHP Foundation's mission is to
ensure the long-term prosperity of the
PHP language.”
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• Improve the language for its users
• Provide high-quality maintenance
• Retain current contributors and welcome new ones
• Promote the public image of PHP
php.foundation
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php.foundation
“The language decisions are the matter of
[email protected]”
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Funding PHP
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Funding PHP
Total raised: $ 1,111k
From organizations: 80%
From individuals: 20%
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Funding PHP
Total raised: $ 1,111k
Recurring: 50%
One time: 50%
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Funding PHP: Companies
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Spending the funds
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Spending the funds
Total raised: $ 1,111k
Paid developers: $ 408k
Balance: $ 703k
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Budget is public
https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET
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The team
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Team
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Community
Developers Board
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Team
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Community
Developers Board
Paid by JetBrains
Paid by the Foundation
Paid by Zend
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Language Impact
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41%
59%
Other
contributors
The PHP
Foundation
Share of commits in PHP repository
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Language Impact
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What are the devs working on?
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(Fancy things only)
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Gina Peter Banyard
• New autoloading mechanism
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Ilija Tovilo
• Property hooks
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class User
{
public function __construct(
private string $first,
private string $last,
) {
}
public string $fullName {
get => $this->first . ' ' . $this->last;
set($v) => [$this->first, $this->last] = explode(' ', $v);
}
}
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Arnaud Le Blanc
• Lazy objects
• Generics
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$obj = (new ReflectionClass($class))->newInstanceWithoutConstructor();
$r = ReflectionLazyObject::makeLazy($obj, function (object $obj) {
$args = // compute arguments on demand
$obj->__construct(...$args);
});
$r->skipProperty($propertyName);
// ...
ReflectionLazyObject::isLazyObject($obj);
$r = ReflectionLazyObject::fromInstance($obj);
$r->initialize();
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Potential on symfony/var-exporter
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Potential on doctrine/orm
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Máté Kocsis
• Clone with
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class Response
{
public readonly int $status;
public function withStatus($status): static
{
return clone $this with [
'status' => $status,
];
}
}
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Derick Rethans
• PECL overhaul
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Jakub Zelenka
• JSONSchema support
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Future goals
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• Hire and mentor more core devs
• More financial stability
• Shape a roadmap
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Projects 2024
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•PECL Overhaul
•Security Audit
•FPM Stability
•Documentation
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Advisory Board
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• Cannot hydrate a DateTime instance
created without the constructor
#8152
• Casting an object to array does not
unwrap references #8655
• WeakMap prevents garbage
collection #10043
• Use zval storage for php://memory
stream #11106
• Allow suspending fibers in
destructors #11389
• Missing CURL_HTTP_VERSION_3
constant #11755
• Wrong magic methods sequence
with ?? operator #12695
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Get bugs fixed
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• Make class_alias() work with internal
classes #9826
• Wrong closure scope class reported
for static methods #8932
• Add support for
CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT #10454
• Allow writing to readonly properties
during cloning #9403
• Add
ReflectionFunction::isAnonymous()
#8499
• Add Stringable interface #5083
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Improve things
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Keep things working
Be a Backward
Compatibility champion
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How can you help?
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Spread the word
php.foundation
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Nicolas Grekas
@nicolasgrekas
Thank you
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Nicolas Grekas
@nicolasgrekas
Thank you