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Matthew Weier O’Phinney

Principal Product Manager

Matthew Weier O’Phinney is the Principal Product Manager at Perforce Zend and OpenLogic, where he focuses on creating the tools developers need to build and deploy their applications. He is a founding member of the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG), which creates and promotes standards for the PHP ecosystem, where he has served two elected terms on the PHP-FIG Core Committee and collaborated on many specifications. 

Matthew began developing on Zend Framework (ZF) before its public release, and he led the project for Zend from 2009 through 2019. He acts as the Project Lead for the Laminas Project, which includes the subprojects Laminas API Tools (formerly Apigility) and Mezzio (formerly Expressive). He has contributed to many open source projects and communities, many of which can be found on github and his personal website.

Latest Content from Matthew Weier O’Phinney

PHP Basics: What Is PHP Used For? Blog

PHP Basics: What Is PHP Used For?

In this blog, we give an overview of the ways in which PHP can be used, and where it excels.
PHP Development
PHP 7.2: Features, Changes, and Key Dates Blog

PHP 7.2: Features, Changes, and Key Dates

In this article, we look at the details of the PHP 7.2 release, including release date, EOL dates, features, improvements, deprecations, and performance.
PHP Development, State of PHP
Guide to PHP 5.6 Blog

Guide to PHP 5.6

In our guide to PHP 5.6, we look at release and EOL dates, notable features, performance comparisons, and security vulnerabilities.
PHP Development
Guide to PHP 7.1 Blog

Guide to PHP 7.1

See PHP 7.1 EOL dates, features, and performance comparisons in this blog
PHP Development
Introducing the Zend PHP Security Center Blog

Introducing the Zend PHP Security Center

The PHP Security Center is a tool for DevOps and developers. Developers should use it to understand what versions of PHP they should target for production, as well as to understand what areas of their code might be vulnerable, and how to mitigate vulnerabilities pro-actively.
Security
What Is an Interface In PHP? Blog

What Is an Interface In PHP?

A PHP interface defines a contract which a class must fulfill. If a PHP class is a blueprint for objects, an interface is a blueprint for classes. Any class implementing a given interface can be expected to have the same behavior in terms of what can be called, how it can be called, and what will be returned.
PHP Development
What Is a PHP Class? Blog

What Is a PHP Class?

This blog is a guide to learn about a PHP class, properties, methods, inheritance, and constructors.
PHP Development
The Evolution of Zend Framework to the Laminas Project Blog

The Evolution of Zend Framework to the Laminas Project

What Is Zend Framework?
Laminas, Zend Framework