Symfony, PHP and its Foundation​

This presentation focuses on the development and future of PHP, emphasizing the PHP Foundation's role in sustaining and advancing the language. It highlights the minimal contribution to PHP's development despite its widespread usage and the pivotal role of the PHP Foundation in addressing this gap. The foundation, supported by major PHP-based projects and companies, aims to improve PHP for end-users, ensure high-quality maintenance, and promote PHP's modern image. The talk discusses the foundation's achievements, challenges, and ongoing projects like lazy objects and property hooks, underscoring the importance of community and financial support in shaping PHP's future.

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1. Nicolas Grekas @nicolasgrekas <? https://externals.io/ message/118040 Symfony, PHP and its Foundation
2. PHP leads the web 2
3. 3 • Apple • Facebook • Pfizer • Flipkart • Slack • Spotify • Etsy • etc. etc. etc. PHP leads the web
4. How many contributors were paid to work on the PHP engine in 2021? 4
5. PHP’s Bus Factor Dmitry Stogov Nikita Popov 5
6. 6 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
7. 7 JetBrains Does it make sense to look for a replacement and pay for just one developer again?
9. 9 Founding companies Acquia Automattic Craft CMS JetBrains Laravel PrestaShop Private Packagist Symfony Tideways Zend by Perforce
10. We support, advance, and develop the PHP language 10
11. “The PHP Foundation's mission is to ensure the long-term prosperity of the PHP language.” 11 • 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
12. 12 php.foundation “The language decisions are the matter of internals@lists.php.net”
13. Funding PHP 13
14. 14 Funding PHP Total raised: $ 1,111k From organizations: 80% From individuals: 20%
15. 15 Funding PHP Total raised: $ 1,111k Recurring: 50% One time: 50%
16. 16 Funding PHP: Companies
17. Spending the funds 17
18. 18 Spending the funds Total raised: $ 1,111k Paid developers: $ 408k Balance: $ 703k
19. 19 Budget is public https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET
20. The team 20
21. Team 21 Community Developers Board
22. Team 22 Community Developers Board Paid by JetBrains Paid by the Foundation Paid by Zend
23. Language Impact 23 41% 59% Other contributors The PHP Foundation Share of commits in PHP repository
24. Language Impact 24
25. What are the devs working on? 25 (Fancy things only)
26. 26 Gina Peter Banyard • New autoloading mechanism
27. 27 Ilija Tovilo • Property hooks
28. 28 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); } }
29. 29 Arnaud Le Blanc • Lazy objects • Generics
30. 30 $obj = (new ReflectionClass($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();
31. 31 Potential on symfony/var-exporter
32. 32 Potential on doctrine/orm
33. 33 Máté Kocsis • Clone with
34. 34 class Response { public readonly int $status; public function withStatus($status): static { return clone $this with [ 'status' => $status, ]; } }
35. 35 Derick Rethans • PECL overhaul
36. 36 Jakub Zelenka • JSONSchema support
37. Future goals 37 • Hire and mentor more core devs • More financial stability • Shape a roadmap
38. Projects 2024 38 •PECL Overhaul •Security Audit •FPM Stability •Documentation
39. Advisory Board
40. • 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 40 Get bugs fixed
41. • 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 41 Improve things
42. 42 Keep things working Be a Backward Compatibility champion
43. How can you help? 43 Spread the word php.foundation
45. 45 Nicolas Grekas @nicolasgrekas Thank you <?
46. 46 Nicolas Grekas @nicolasgrekas Thank you <?