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30 Years of PHP: Innovations Ahead with 8.5, FrankenPHP, and Beyond

Celebrating 3 Decades of PHP with a Look into Its Most Exciting Future

Recording available until 29. January 2026

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30 Years of PHP and the Journey Continues

PHP is celebrating its 30th anniversary—and it’s more innovative than ever. At our Fullstack Live Event, you’ll get an exclusive look at the most exciting developments: from new features and performance boosts in PHP 8.5, to the modern capabilities of FrankenPHP, and a retrospective on three decades of PHP history and 25 years of testing. Discover how the language, its tooling, and its community have evolved—and what that means for your projects today.

The Future of PHP

Whether it’s building more powerful applications with PHP 8.5, leveraging smart infrastructure with FrankenPHP, or drawing hands-on lessons from 30 years of Open Source, this event delivers everything you need to actively shape the future of PHP. Our experts will share practical strategies, inspiring insights, and concrete tools to help you modernize legacy code and build modern web applications faster, safer, and more efficiently. Celebrate 30 years of PHP and be there live when the next era begins!

Your expert sessions

10:15 - 11:15 | What's New in PHP 8.5 | Volker Dusch

Get an exclusive first look at the upcoming PHP 8.5 with Volker, Release Manager for PHP 8.5. Discover live the performance improvements, new features, and critical ecosystem updates you need to know. Learn practical strategies for handling upcoming deprecations smartly and efficiently. This fast-paced, hands-on session focuses on what truly matters for your projects. Perfect for using PHP 8.5 effectively from day one!

11:45 - 12:45 | Give Your PHP Apps Superpowers with FrankenPHP | Kévin Dunglas

Explore FrankenPHP, the modern PHP application server written in Go and integrated with the popular Caddy web server. See how it simplifies PHP installation and operation while adding powerful features to your projects. Benefit from worker mode, native real-time capabilities, resource preloading via HTTP 103 Early Hints, automatic HTTPS, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, modern compression, Prometheus metrics, and OpenTracing. FrankenPHP delivers performance and observability out of the box and is now officially hosted under the PHP Foundation GitHub organization. Join this session to see how you can take your PHP development to the next level!

14:00 - 14:45 | 30 Years of PHP, 25 Years of Testing: A Journey Through Code and Community | Sebastian Bergmann

Celebrate 30 years of PHP and 25 years of testing! Dive into the fascinating history of PHP and PHPUnit, and discover how these two pillars have shaped web development—from PHP’s humble beginnings to PHPUnit’s evolution as a testing powerhouse. Gain inspiring insights, community anecdotes, and a glimpse into the future of PHP and its ecosystem. Learn from expert experience and celebrate three decades of open-source innovation and collaboration!

Join us and learn...

How to make the most of PHP 8.5’s performance upgrades and new features.
How FrankenPHP gives your projects superpowers in speed and observability.
Which lessons and innovations from 30 years of PHP will shape your future development.

Expert Knowledge for

PHP Developers who want to understand the latest PHP 8.5 features and apply them directly in their projects.
Software Architects & Tech Leads looking to explore modern infrastructures like FrankenPHP to make their applications faster and more secure.
Open Source Enthusiasts eager to learn from 30 years of PHP community history and actively shape the ecosystem’s future.

Get to know our experts

Volker Dusch

Expert in PHP development and software architecture

Kévin Dunglas

Expert in API development and open-source innovation

Sebastian Bergmann

Expert in testing and software quality with PHP

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