The PHP Roundtable
The PHP Roundtable is a podcast of web developers discussing PHP, JavaScript, community, open source, and anything else PHP nerds care about. It is broadcast live from Google Hangouts On-Air. For complete show notes or to watch the episodes in video format visit PHPRoundtable.com. And join the conversation live! Just subscribe to the newsletter at www.phproundtable.com and never miss a live show.
093: PHPRoundtable September 2024 - CLIs and TUIs with PHP for fun and profit
Unlock the power of command-line interfaces and text-based user interfaces with PHP in our latest PHPRoundtable episode: ‘CLIs and TUIs with PHP fo...
Posted on 13 September 2024 | 4:01 am
92: PHPRoundtable Aug 2024 - Event Sourcing
Show LinksEvent Sourcery: Event Sourcery is a video course created by Shawn McCool that covers the fundamentals of reactive systems and event sourc...
Posted on 12 August 2024 | 9:30 pm
91: PHPRoundtable July 2024
In this episode on PHPRoundtable, the panel discusses AI, what we are using, and what we are not. We also discuss frontend development for backend ...
Posted on 13 July 2024 | 2:26 am
90: PHPRoundtable June 2024
In this episode on PHPRoundtable, the panel discusses the adoption and current state of PHP in the industry. We also share out thoughts on what we ...
Posted on 15 June 2024 | 2:35 am
89: 2024 May
Here are some links from the show.glibc/iconv VulnerabilityThe GNU C Library security advisoriesTaskFileOpen Telemetry PHPPHP BCMath RFCPython Num...
Posted on 11 May 2024 | 2:49 am
88: Developer Relations
Join us on the next PHPRoundtable as we decode the superheroes behind the scenes in the tech world! No, they don't wear capes (usually), but they'r...
Posted on 15 October 2023 | 3:08 am
87: Open Sourcing Mental Illness
Please consider supporting OSMI and its mission to help those facing mental illness in the tech community. Donate to Open Sourcing Mental IllnessOS...
Posted on 9 May 2023 | 3:45 am
86:The Education of Development
Links from the ShowBoise State University GIMM ProgramMadison Area Technical CollegeThe PanelEric Van Johnson - This is me :-) I am a self-taught P...
Posted on 18 February 2023 | 8:39 pm
85: The State of PHP User Groups
An international panel of PHP Community members discusses the stat of PHP User Groups. How to get involved, so of the pitfalls, and a lot of the be...
Posted on 26 June 2022 | 2:22 am
84: Back at the Table
Ben shared with us his experience being a Release Manager for PHP 8.1. We also talk about the voting process for Release Manager voting for 8.2 (ht...
Posted on 18 May 2022 | 9:41 pm
083: 10 Years Of Laravel
10 years of Laravel, and the framework continues to grow stronger with the passing of each release. More and more talented developers are creating ...
Posted on 10 September 2021 | 8:25 pm
82: A seat at the table
Sammy opens the Roundtable back up. Everyone talks about what they've been doing for the past few years. What we are up to now. And what the future...
Posted on 31 July 2021 | 3:00 pm
081: PHP-FIG 3.0
There have been lots of big changes happening with the PHP-FIG. Today we chat with a number of figgies to get the inside scoop on what has changed ...
Posted on 31 July 2021 | 3:01 am
80: PHP Internals: Preloading, FFI & More
We'll be deep-diving into some PHP internals goodness that you won't want to miss. We'll go behind the scenes of preloading, a possible foreign fun...
Posted on 31 July 2021 | 12:46 am
79: GDPR For PHP Devs
The first major piece of legislation that we've seen attempt to regulate how our personal information is handled on the web is the General Data Pro...
Posted on 30 July 2021 | 11:39 pm
78: DocBlocks, Annotations, PSR-5 & The Like
We discuss DocBlocks, PSR-5, Annotations, reflection, automatic API documentation generation, and their future in PHP. The PHP podcast is where eve...
Posted on 30 July 2021 | 7:00 am
077: Tech Interviews for Self-Taught PHP Programmers
Self-taught PHP programmers, even those of us with decades of experience, would likely fail a tech interview in an epic way. If you've ever wanted ...
Posted on 6 September 2018 | 4:00 pm
076: Concurrency, Generators & Coroutines - Oh My!
PHP has had support for coroutines since PHP 5.5 and it allows you to do some really cool non-blocking stuff. We chat about concurrency in PHP and ...
Posted on 26 July 2018 | 11:00 am
075: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
New accessibility guidelines are coming down the pipe that will impact our apps with the new WCAG 2.1. We chat about what the guidelines are and ho...
Posted on 20 July 2018 | 11:00 am
074: Secrets, Secrets, Are No Fun
Secrets, secrets, are no fun, all they do is cause pain when trying to deploy to production. By secrets, we're talking about database passwords, AP...
Posted on 27 June 2018 | 12:00 pm
073: PHP Static Analysis
Static analysis is a fancy word to describe a tool that looks at our code and gives us helpful hints on how to improve it. We'll be discussing what...
Posted on 12 June 2018 | 3:00 pm
072: Secret Project Revealed!
We finally unveil the super-secret project to the world! Listen in to find out what it is and how you can get your hands on one.
Posted on 30 May 2018 | 9:00 pm
071: Extra, extra: PHP 7.2 released!
The next major version of PHP is here! PHP 7.2 comes with a nice set of upgrades, performance enhancements, and a brand new crypto library right ou...
Posted on 23 May 2018 | 2:00 pm
070: All things WordPress
We chat about backwards compatibility, Gutenberg, and the WordPress ecosystem.
Posted on 16 May 2018 | 12:00 pm
069: Catching Up With PHP Friends
We're still alive! We come off our hiatus to have an informal catch-up session with some PHP friends. And proof of the secret PHP Roundtable projec...
Posted on 10 March 2018 | 8:00 pm
068: PHP's Dirty Little Segfault Secret
PHP is known for running really bad code really well. But it has a dirty little secret: deep within its code is a hidden "stack bomb". You can caus...
Posted on 20 October 2017 | 3:00 pm
067: Imposter syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect
In an industry like software engineering where it seems like there's always something else to learn, it's easy to come down with a case of imposter...
Posted on 6 October 2017 | 12:00 pm
066: Docker: Drinking the Kool-Aid
After years of resisting, SammyK finally drank the Docker Kool-Aid for his everyday client work. We talk about his transition from Vagrant to Docke...
Posted on 29 August 2017 | 12:00 pm
065: TestFest 2017
Adding tests to php-src is a great way to get involved with PHP internals. Don't know how to get started? You're in luck. TestFest 2017 is going to...
Posted on 24 July 2017 | 12:00 pm
064: PHP 7 Source Code: A Deep Dive
We take a deep-dive into the underlaying structure of the the PHP source code and talk about the scanner, parser, the new AST layer (and the evil t...
Posted on 7 July 2017 | 11:30 am
063: A php[tek] 2017 Special
We have a mashup recording with PHPUgly and PHP Town Hall during the community night at php[tek] 2017. We chat about OSMI, UUID's, git, product dev...
Posted on 25 May 2017 | 9:00 pm
062: All things Laravel
We chat all things about the Laravel ecosystem.
Posted on 27 April 2017 | 10:00 am
061: Dependency Injection
Dependency Injection has been a design principle that the PHP community has embraced more fully than a lot of other programming communities. There'...
Posted on 14 April 2017 | 12:00 pm
060: Logging & Crash Reporting in PHP
No matter how experienced you are as a programmer, at some point your app will generate errors and crash. Fixing problems with your app quickly is ...
Posted on 28 March 2017 | 10:00 am
059: PHP 7.1
PHP 7.1, the latest minor version of PHP, was released on December 1st. We discuss some things that went on behind-the-scenes that brought this new...
Posted on 23 January 2017 | 2:00 pm
058: HTTPlug, Guzzle & API's
Guzzle has become the de-facto HTTP-client library for PHP. But recently a number of open source projects have been switching to HTTPlug which boas...
Posted on 5 January 2017 | 10:00 am
057: All things Zend
There's a lot more going on at Zend other than Zend Framework. We chat about the Zend ecosystem, from Apigility to Zend Certification and what Zend...
Posted on 20 December 2016 | 12:00 pm
056: Hourly vs Value-Based Pricing
There are two seemingly contradicting philosophies about how to charge clients for programming work. The hourly camp suggests that the client is pa...
Posted on 7 November 2016 | 2:00 pm
055: Acceptance Testing with Behat
We chat about the open-source Behavior-Driven Development framework called Behat. We get a brief overview of how Behat can help us write more relia...
Posted on 3 November 2016 | 12:00 pm
054: Security: Encryption, Hashing and PHP
We chat about security in the the PHP community, encryption & hashing in PHP and a new-hotness crypto library called libsodium.
Posted on 25 October 2016 | 2:00 pm
053: Why I'm Afraid To Admit I Use PHP
So you spend most of your time programming in PHP. You meet another programmer out in the wild. You begin explaining what you do. Do you find yours...
Posted on 2 September 2016 | 12:00 pm
052: Happy Birthday PHP Roundtable!
Today the PHP Roundtable celebrates 2 years of generating nerdy discussions! We take a look behind the scenes of the PHP Roundtable podcast and cha...
Posted on 25 August 2016 | 12:00 pm
051: What happened to PHP 6?
Despite the fact that there was never an official release of PHP 6, it was going to be a real thing with a lot of great improvements to the engine ...
Posted on 16 August 2016 | 12:00 pm
050: PHP For Beginners
If you're just starting with programming & PHP, this episode is for you. We discuss some helpful tips to get you started with PHP programming s...
Posted on 8 August 2016 | 7:00 pm
049: Event Sourcing in PHP
We spend much of our time as developers managing the state in our applications. There are many different approaches and philosophies attributed to ...
Posted on 10 July 2016 | 2:00 pm
048: Docker & PHP
The demand for DevOps skills is growing more and more in modern web development. But all the hype and demand is met with myriad DevOps tools. Stayi...
Posted on 23 June 2016 | 6:00 pm
047: All About HTTP/2
HTTP/1.1 will eventually be replaced by HTTP/2 so it's important for us PHP nerds to know all about the latest version of the HTTP protocol that's ...
Posted on 16 June 2016 | 12:00 pm
046: Character Encoding and UTF-8 in PHP
If you've ever gotten a number of weird looking characters in your database or on your website like, "�" and didn't know why, then this episode is ...
Posted on 30 May 2016 | 12:00 pm
045: A php|tek 2016 Special
We record live from main stage at php|tek in St. Louis, MO. We discuss speaking at conferences and recent events in PHP-FIG.
Posted on 26 May 2016 | 8:00 pm
044: Asynchronous PHP
Async? Isn't that like AJAX in Javascript or something? Most PHP developers encounter asynchronous code for the first time in Javascript, but not m...
Posted on 14 April 2016 | 7:00 pm