What we’re about
The Seattle PHP User Group (SeaPHP UG) is a volunteer-run PHP user group, and invites anyone with a desire to talk and learn about PHP and related technologies to gather together, share their knowledge, and promote the PHP community in the Seattle, WA, and Puget Sound area.
This group currently meets monthly to sharpen skills, network with other PHP developers in the area, learn new ideas and technologies, find jobs, and laugh. Check our meetup page regularly for details about each upcoming meetup.
In 2016, Seattle PHP became a 501c3 organization. This means donations you make, can be tax deductible.
How We Communicate
Please review our Code of Conduct.
The Seattle PHP community uses 2 types of communication on Meetup - the Mailing List and Message Board. We use the mailing list for developer discussions — asking/answering PHP questions, frameworks/CMS, Databases, architectural trade-offs, and receiving announcements. The Message Board is great for things like job postings, requests for work, event announcements, and sharing interesting news articles.
If you are a recruiter or you are offering a job, please use the Message Board to post the job opportunities
We encourage you to attend in-person meetups to announce jobs. Connect with people you want to hire! We provide a few minutes of dedicated open mic time at the beginning of the monthly meetups. Thanks for participating!
Have Ideas or Recommendations to Share
• Do you have some event ideas?
• Would you like to sponsor the meetup, or have items to raffle? We are grateful for your support.
• Interested in helping out?
• Would you like to speak at a meetup?
Please email the Seattle PHP organizers!: admins [at] seaphp [dot] com
Upcoming events
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•OnlineMergePHP: Mastering Agentic PHP Development with MCP
OnlineAI coding assistants are powerful, but they're only as good as the context they have access to. Without real-time documentation, even the best models can hallucinate APIs or miss modern best practices. Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard bridging AI agents with live, authoritative data. We'll cover MCP's core concepts, then build a functional server using the Official PHP SDK that connects directly to PHP.net documentation. We'll also implement Composer package search for intelligent dependency discovery. Join me to see how this Master Control Program...unlike the TRON original...is actually here to help.
Presented by Hunter Skrasek
Join us live on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams
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Want to present at MergePHP? Sign up to speak with the link below. Technical talks are appreciated! Make a note if it's a full-length or shorter lightning talk.
MergePHP is:
- AtlantaPHP
- AustinPHP
- AZ PHP
- BostonPHP
- Houston
- Kansas City PHP
- PDX (Portland, OR)
- San Diego PHP
- SeattlePHP
- UtahPHP
- Vegas PHP
- Vancouver PHP
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/suggest5 attendees
•OnlineMergePHP: Domain Driven PHP
OnlineIn 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
Join us live on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams
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Want to present at MergePHP? Sign up to speak with the link below. Technical talks are appreciated! Make a note if it's a full-length or shorter lightning talk.
MergePHP is:
- AtlantaPHP
- AustinPHP
- AZ PHP
- BostonPHP
- Houston
- Kansas City PHP
- PDX (Portland, OR)
- San Diego PHP
- SeattlePHP
- UtahPHP
- Vegas PHP
- Vancouver PHP
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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