What's new in PHP 7 and what to expect in PHP 7.1

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What's new in PHP 7 and what to expect in PHP 7.1

In this talk "What's New in PHP 7 and what to expect in PHP 7.1", Dan's going to show how Symfony runs quicker in PHP 7, things to watch out for when upgrading (including with Doctrine), how you can make your code more reliable with the new features, and then give a brief overview of new features coming later this year.

Dan Blows (https://da.nblo.ws/) is a developer at Aurora Commerce. He's been working with PHP since v4, and started using Symfony v1.2 in 2008. He's already upgraded three large codebases from PHP 5 to PHP 7, including one from v5.3. After building a pension calculator he realised that he needs to give talks at conferences if he's going to eat after he retires.

Lightning talks

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only few minutes. It's your opportunity to share your Symfony experience! No slides required. Prepare (or not), come to the meetup and talk for 5-10 minutes. Simples!

Join us on slack.symfony.org.uk (http://slack.symfony.org.uk/) if you've got any questions.

Meet other Symfony developers, join us for discussions, socialising and presentations.

If you'd like to share your Symfony experience, or simply practice your public speaking skills, contact Jakub (https://twitter.com/jakub_zalas) (Kuba) and speak at the next meetup!

Don't forget to join us on slack.symfony.org.uk (http://slack.symfony.org.uk/)!

Sponsors

Drinks and location sponsored by Inviqa (http://inviqa.com/).

1-year individual subscription to any single JetBrains Toolbox product (https://www.jetbrains.com/products.html) of your choice from among IDEs is kindly sponsored by JetBrains.

A 10year anniversary Symfony ElePHPant was brought to you from Paris by Kuba (https://twitter.com/jakub_zalas).

Submitting talks

Have a talk idea you'd like to hear? Problem to be solved? Perhaps you'd like to present a talk yourself?

Submit it to http://bit.ly/sfukcop today!