What's new in PHP 8.*

The team at PHPSW hope you had a great Christmas and New Year.

To celebrate the recent release of PHP 8.2 Derick Rethans will be giving his talk "What's new in PHP 8.*"

During this presentation, we are going to look at the new features added in PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1, and PHP 8.2. Join me to have a look at how the type system is strengthened with Enumerations and "never", Fibers, a new closure syntax, the First Class Callable Syntax, intersection and disjunctive normal form types, readonly classes, and other smaller features. At the end you will have a good understanding about all the new and exciting features that are new in PHP 8.*.

If you'd like to give a lighting talk (5 to 10mins) then let us know and we'll schedule that in too.

SR2 – Socially Responsible Recruitment (https://www.sr2rec.co.uk/) in Bristol are kindly helping us host this evening. Thanks to them!

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Your first time coming to PHPSW? Welcome!

Here's how the evening tends to run:

• Feel free to turn up from 6:30pm.
• We'll have a selection of soft drinks & alcoholic drinks available from about 6:45pm, all free of charge thanks to our sponsors. It's a great chance to speak to people (we're a friendly bunch!) and do a bit of networking. Just speak to an organiser if you'd like an introduction to people, or just dive in and say "hello!".
• At 7pm, we'll do a quick welcome talk and some community announcements
• At ~7:10pm we'll have our first talk
• After our first talk, there's a small break whilst we switch over speakers
• At ~ 8:00pm we'll have any lightning talks
• We finish at ~9pm. We always go for a drink somewhere afterwards to discuss the talks and anything else that takes your fancy.