Ask HN: Where is the PHP community?

Posted by shire on Monday August 11, 2014 @02:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Where can I find PHP conferences or communities similar to what python has PyCon https://us.pycon.org/2015/. Where is all the great resources for Php where people can learn and understand the language more. I feel like a lot of 2014 + is going to be more about Python and Ruby and less focus on PHP but I could be wrong.

Share some resources, videos, projects, tutorials or cool things happening in the PHP community.

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Re:Ask HN: Where is the PHP community? by ejr on Monday August 11, 2014 @03:02AM (#8162273)

Well, there's PHP Conference http://phpconference.com And also Northeastern http://www.northeastphp.org/

I don't know of it's too late to get tickets yet since these are late October and September. It's good to check up on these early in the year, just in case.

Edit: On Northeastern, you can check out last years highlights to see if this is what you're looking for http://2013.northeastphp.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Where is the PHP community? by rachelandrew on Monday August 11, 2014 @03:40AM (#8162346)

The ConFoo Conference in Montreal is always an excellent one for PHP (and other technologies).

http://confoo.ca

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Re:Ask HN: Where is the PHP community? by saluki on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:50PM (#8166273)

Check out the Laravel Framework . . . Laravel.com

(laracasts.com is a great place to get your feet wet)

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Re:Ask HN: Where is the PHP community? by mhoad on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:24AM (#8162441)

I keep hearing ridiculously good things about laracasts.com which might be worth checking out as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Where is the PHP community? by csixty4 on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:19AM (#8163118)

There's the php[tek] conference every year in the Chicago area.

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Re:Ask HN: Where is the PHP community? by motyar on Monday August 11, 2014 @02:35AM (#8162207)

check http://php.net and http://www.phpclasses.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Where is the PHP community? by fanalin on Monday August 11, 2014 @03:53AM (#8162372)

sry, phpclasses.org is not a very good ressource.

Try https://packagist.org/ instead. http://www.phptherightway.com/ is also a goof landing spot.

Concerning the original question: I don't know of a string PHP community anywhere. Some high-profile PHP developers are active on the PHP subreddit (ircmaxell, nikic, Phil Sturgeon, Paul M Jones and many more).

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