About us
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: Ansible for PHP Devs: Configure, Deploy, and Update Your Server Infra
·OnlineOnlineMost PHP developers learn server administration the hard way: SSHing into a box, editing config files by hand, and hoping the next deploy doesn't break what the last one fixed. This talk introduces Ansible as the way out — not as a checklist of commands to copy, but as a set of concepts (declarative state, idempotency, inventory, roles) that lets attendees author their own infrastructure code. Starting from zero Ansible experience, we build up the mental model: control nodes and managed nodes, modules and tasks, then roles and playbooks. From there we work through a realistic example — provisioning a server for a PHP application, deploying the app, and performing a zero-downtime update using release directories and a `current` symlink.
Presented by Joe Ferguson
DevOps Dev. Writer. Open Source, Linux, Python, PHP, Ansible, ❤️ DevOps. ⚽, 🏒, & 🏎 FanEvent Details On Our Website:
https://www.mergephp.com/Streams Are On Our YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams🐘 MergePHP is:
- AtlantaPHP
- AustinPHP
- BostonPHP
- Kansas City PHP
- Portland PHPDX
- San Diego PHP
- SeattlePHP
- UtahPHP
- Vegas PHP
Subscribe to our Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MergePHP
Follow us on Mastodon: https://phpc.social/@mergeSpeaker Signups: https://mphp.io/speakers
Suggest Speakers: https://mphp.io/suggest1 attendee
MergePHP: Jujutsu: A New Take on Version Control
·OnlineOnlineGit has been the de facto standard for version control for nearly two decades, but a new contender has arrived. Jujutsu (jj) is a modern version control system that reimagines the developer experience while remaining fully compatible with Git repositories. In this talk, we'll explore what makes Jujutsu different — its first-class conflict handling, automatic rebasing, and a mental model that makes complex history manipulation feel natural. Jujutsu offers unlocks that can seriously level-up your version control game.
Presented by Nick Vahalik
Nick Vahalik has been writing PHP for over two decades and has a passion for lazy development and whatever helps make software development more enjoyable.Event Details On Our Website:
https://www.mergephp.com/Streams Are On Our YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams🐘 MergePHP is:
- AtlantaPHP
- AustinPHP
- BostonPHP
- Kansas City PHP
- Portland PHPDX
- San Diego PHP
- SeattlePHP
- UtahPHP
- Vegas PHP
Subscribe to our Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MergePHP
Follow us on Mastodon: https://phpc.social/@mergeSpeaker Signups: https://mphp.io/speakers
Suggest Speakers: https://mphp.io/suggest1 attendee
Past events
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