AustinPHP @ ESC13 // Mastering Agentic PHP Development with MCP

We're in-person at ESC13 for the first time in awhile, and are back to our 7pm time slot for the first time since 2020! You can still catch the stream online, but we'd love for you to show up on-site if you're in the area to start the year off strong and watch Hunter Skrasek present about MCP.

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AI coding assistants are powerful, but they're only as good as the context they haveaccess to. Without real-time documentation, even the best models can hallucinate APIs ormiss modern best practices. Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standardbridging AI agents with live, authoritative data. We'll cover MCP's core concepts, then builda functional server using the Official PHP SDK that connects directly to PHP.netdocumentation. We'll also implement Composer package search for intelligent dependencydiscovery. Join me to see how this Master Control Program...unlike the TRON original...isactually here to help.

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Tuning in online? See https://www.mergephp.com/, or watch the stream on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams

Sign up to speak online at MergePHP (or in person if you like!): https://mphp.io/speakers

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