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  Our CFP closes end-of-day Tuesday. If you haven't submitted a talk or tutorial, nows a good time to get your abstracts in. https://cfp.longhornphp.com

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  Co-organizer @ian@phpc.social will be chatting on the PHP Podcast at 5pm Central this evening about the conference and in-person events in the community in general. Tune in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8gnXxMzR_k .

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  On the surface, the idea of code review is a no-brainer: why wouldn't we want a second set of eyes on our code, especially before deploying to production? But the topic of code review is more nuanced. How detailed should the review be? Who is qualified to perform the review? Join @stevegrunwell@phpc.social for "Code Review: For Me & You" to gain deeper insight into some of the arguments for and against systemic, peer code review, as well as pick up some useful tools to make cod...

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  Join PHP core developer and veteran release manager Daniel Scherzer for a deep dive into the new features, syntax updates, deprecations, and surprises coming in PHP 8.6. While PHP 8.6 is still in the release candidate phase, now is the time to start preparing to upgrade. Grab your ticket now at longhornphp.com

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  Software teams don't fail because people do bad work, they fail because everyone has a different version of the truth. Join Alena Holligan's tutorial to learn how OpenAPI, Arazzo, Schemathesis & PHPUnit create "One Source of Truth for Requirements, Code, Documentation, and Tests" https://longhornphp.com/

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  It's official: this year's conference dates are Thursday, October 15 for Tutorial Day and Friday, October 16 for keynotes, talks, open spaces, and more! Two days rather than three, still multi-track, still here for the community. Grab a ticket at https://longhornphp.com, or submit to speak at https://cfp.longhornphp.com.

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  This year we are excited to have @ahoylemon joining us, with his talk "How To Make Your Website A Progressive Web App (And Why You Might Want To)" In this talk, Lemon will take you through the process of starting with a simple HTML website add add features like caching, notifications, desktop installation and offline mode to create an app that’s as interesting and dynamic as you’d want it to be. Get tickets at https://longhornphp.com

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  Good Morning #LonghornPHP attendees! Today is a beautiful day here in Austin - if you're attending tutorials today, remember to dress in layers - the venue is WELL air-conditioned.

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  The #longhornphp 2025 tutorial day is underway! @alena is presenting on BDD, @flowcontrol is walking through building an observability extension with Rust, and @DaveLiddament is diving into building custom Rector rules.

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  The morning tutorials at #LonghornPHP are concluded! Please join us for lunch in Hill Country C, then get ready for the afternoon sessions!

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  The 1st (zero-indexed) day of #longhornphp is well underway! After an opening keynote by Cory House, we have Janani Subbiah talking about API specification, @manchuck walking through PHP security mechanisms, and @scottkeckwarren explaining database design for developers.

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  Next up at #longhornphp, we're navigating the #a11y evolution with @volkswagenchick using network magic to do zero trust with @josh, and doing @phpunit database testing with @cspray

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  Lunch today is sponsored by @phparch - Thanks so much PHP Architect! Head over to the hallway just across from registration - and enjoy! #LonghornPHP

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  Friday afternoon #longhornphp sessions are commencing. We have "Love your Monolith" from @m1ke, "AI Agents in Drupal" by @marcusjohansson, database optimization strategies by @alena, and a special uncon presentation about HTTP/3 by Paul Dejean.

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  Our next set of afternoon #longhornphp sessions is a rundown of what happens when you inherited a legacy application by @joepferguson, a discussion of local development via DDEV with Bernardo Martinez, and a digression into writing SQL with AI by Dave Stokes.

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  A bit late, but this hour's #longhornphp sessions are courtesy Bree Hall talking about Git, @lotharthesavior on building resilient event-driven applications, and @mikemiles86 talking about shifting left by incorporating testing earlier in the development process.

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  For our final #longhornphp sessions of the day we have @Crell getting meta about PHP attributes, Mandy Hubbard talking about software supply chain security, and @OGProgrammer vibe coding it up with Claude.

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  We're well into our first multi-track #longhornphp sessions of the day, after a keynote from @flowcontrol. We have @DaveLiddament talking about decoupling tests, @ericpoe walking through the command line, and Nočnica Mellifera explaining how to monitor synthetics with Playwright.

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  Thanks to our 11am hour #longhornphp presenters: @asgrim talking about PIE, @EvanHahn walking through Unicode, and Keith Davis explaining the machinations of a multi-version, multi-step PHP upgrade.

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  After an insightful keynote from @Coriography, #longhornphp afternoon sessions have commenced. Daniel Scherzer is walking through new PHP 8.5 features, @cabbey is unearthing advanced shenanigans of the Rector variety, and @scottkeckwarren is speaking of taming time itself.

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  Our final set of multi-track #longhornphp sessions consist of David Kerber talking about IAM, @ahoylemon explaining the benefits of progressive web apps, and Ben Batschelet describing how to create developer-friendly projects.

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  Closing out #longhornphp for this year is @ramsey talking about Saving Open Source.

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  We may be starting to wrap things up, but this amazing event is far from over! Huge thanks to #VonageDev for sponsoring our second after party! #LonghornPHP wouldn't be possible without our sponsors, so please make sure to thank them!

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  Time for our 2025 speaker announcements, starting with Ben Ramsey keynoting with "Saving Open Source". With many projects foregoing traditional open source licenses for "source-available" licenses, are we in a post-open source era? Find out with us at longhornphp.com

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  Our next keynote speaker is Cori Lint. Cori Lint is a software engineer with experience as a full-stack engineer, backend engineer, and web developer. Previously, Cori spent a decade in the classical music industry as a professional cellist and orchestra manager. Cori is keynoting with "Work Smarter: Code Like a Musician" - What if we approached software development the way classical musicians approach learning a piece of music? Find out with us - https://longhornphp.com

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  Joining our keynotes lineup is Cory House, author and international speaker, presenting "The Immutable Laws of Software and Life: Code Accordingly". In this session, we'll explore how changes in software design can have unexpected, profound impacts. This session will give you new mental models for thinking about the tradeoffs we make in software... and life. Join us at https://longhornphp.com

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  If you haven't seen the full schedule yet, please check it out! Tickets are still available at Early Bird prices - you can get Conference & Tutorial day, just the conference, and even get virtual tickets for the conference if you can't make it to Austin! https://longhornphp.com/schedule

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  Testing your database can lead to slow, complex tests that are hard to write. Hard to write tests, usually don't get written. There can be a better way of testing this type of code. Using a PHPUnit Extension and framework-agnostic database tools, we can improve tests that interact with the database. Join Charles Sprayberry for "Better Database Testing with PHPUnit" Tickets available at https://longhornphp.com [https://longhornphp.com]

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  Despite our best efforts, it’s difficult to future proof our digital assets and open source projects for accessibility standards. Our code and design may follow current standards, but will your careful compliance become obsolete when new guidelines are released? Join AmyJune Hineline for "Beyond Compliance: Navigating the Accessibility Evolution" - get tickets at longhornphp.com

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  A huge thanks to our Platinum sponsor Roave! The Roave consortium offers PHP teams best-in-class development talent—when they need it—to help master complex technology challenges, modernize code bases, or simply lend a hand with projects. https://roave.com/expertise