Fantastic functions and where to find them - Freek Van der Herten

PHP is a truly amazing language. You probably use PHP to create beautiful websites and services in an expressive way. But the language is capable of so much more than what you’ll probably program in your day to day job. In this entertaining talk, we’ll take a look a couple of surprising ways to use PHP. You’ll see lesser known functionality being used such as weak maps and process control functions. We’ll also cover a couple amazing open source PHP projects that have borrowed inspiration from communities outside of PHP such as Tailwind and Phoenix. After this talk you’ll be even more convinced how truly flexible PHP. You’ll also have learned a couple of functions and packages that you can use in your next project.