Name: 30 years of PHP (inaugural meetup)
Start: 2025-06-12T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-12T22:00:00+02:00
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!

Jakob Buis

Damien Seguy

RotterdamPHP

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Gina Banyard is a dedicated contributor to the PHP engine (php-src). Her main interests lie in improving PHP’s semantics and type system, and she actively works on PHP RFC drafts and ideas. In addition to her technical contributions, Gina maintains and reviews changes to the PHP documentation, including its French translation. She is a passionate speaker, regularly attending and giving talks at conferences to share her knowledge.

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