
What we’re about
The longest-running (since 1999) and largest PHP group in Kansas City! Come talk shop with other developers working with PHP and many other languages and technologies.
Group members range from beginner developers, hobbyists, seasoned professionals and everyone in between.
We offer one meeting each month: Open and casual discussion on the third Saturday at Black Dog Coffeehouse in Lenexa, KS. See the Upcoming Meetups section for details.
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We welcome any and all attendees with no obligation to engage. If you're more comfortable sitting back and listening more than talking, that's great! Come hang out.
Our regular members are here to talk shop or answer your questions on things like Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, application architecture, system design, frontend JavaScript, and server administration.
Upcoming events
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MergePHP: Mastering Agentic PHP Development with MCP
·OnlineOnlineIn the modern PHP ecosystem, we often let frameworks dictate our application's architecture. We start with composer create-project and immediately begin molding our business logic to fit the constraints of a specific "Way." But what happens when the framework becomes a hurdle rather than a helper?
This session explores the Art of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) by stripping away the safety net of frameworks. We will start from a "naked" PHP environment, demonstrating how to build a robust, testable, and scalable application using only pure PHP and the principles of DDD. By focusing on Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates, and Domain Services without the noise of an ORM or a heavy container, you will learn to see your business logic as the primary citizen of your codebase.
Once we have established the "Pure Domain" foundation, we will pivot to the pragmatic reality of modern development: Integration. We will discuss how to take these framework-agnostic principles and safely "plug" them into popular frameworks like Laravel or Symfony. You'll learn how to treat the framework as a replaceable infrastructure detail—leveraging its power for routing and delivery while keeping your core logic untainted and portable.
Presented by Chris Miller
- x: @ccmiller2018
- LinkedIn: @ccmiller2018
Event Details On Our Website:
https://www.mergephp.com/
Streams Are On Our YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams
🐘 MergePHP is:
- AtlantaPHP
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Subscribe to our Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MergePHP
Follow us on Mastodon: https://phpc.social/@merge.
Speaker Signups: https://mphp.io/speakers
Suggest Speakers: https://mphp.io/suggest1 attendee
Past events
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