Name: 30 years of PHP (inaugural meetup)
Start: 2025-06-12T16:30:00.000Z
Location: Treehouse

PHP meetups are back in Rotterdam with our inaugural meetup for RotterdamPHP!!1 (very original, we know)

And our first meetup is a real treat: celebrating 30 years of PHP with Gina Banyard, one of the core developers. Treehouse graciously hosts us at Blaak 555.

**Schedule**
18:30 - Doors open & food
19:20 - Introduction RotterdamPHP, Treehouse & practicalities
19:30 - Gina Peter Banyard: 30 years of PHP: The brilliant, the bad, and the baffling
20:30 - PHP birthday celebration with cake
20.40 - Social drinks
22.00 - Approx. closing time

**Location & access**
Treehouse. Blaak 555, Rotterdam, 22nd floor. There will be people downstairs to let you in up until the start of the meetup. Otherwise, contact the organizers at +31 6 811 30 415.

**Talk**
30 years of PHP: The brilliant, the bad, and the baffling.

In 30 years PHP grew from a scrappy tool created by Rasmus to help write his personal website to a robust workhorse powering large swaths of the internet and more. In this presentation we will revisit PHP’s organic evolutionary journey exploring what made it so brilliant even if at times it had some truly frightening behaviours. From register_globals and magic quotes, it’s first dabbles with an object model in PHP 4, to its modern incarnation with type declarations, attributes, and more sane behaviour. Let’s celebrate PHP with fun and humour and wish for many more years of it!

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Muhammed Akbulut

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Matteo

kiran Nreddy

Shannon

Lucas de Kleijn

Lennart de Wit

Hans Gerard Karremans

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Roel Bakker

Buck Chen

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