Get Analysis on the State of PHP Support Within Popular Content Management Systems
Leading content management systems (CMSs) like Drupal and WordPress rely on PHP in similar, but differing ways – and, by extension, so do their respective ecosystems. However, there are signs that Drupal and WordPress (for a variety of reasons) are struggling to keep pace with the constant march of the PHP community support lifecycle.
Unfortunately, these upstream ripples are causing waves in their downstream ecosystems – with maintainers of plugins, extensions, themes, and modules lagging even further behind their respective CMSs. The worst part is, these issues are causing real headaches for teams deploying mission-critical applications on Drupal and WordPress.
So how can teams keep their apps secure despite these challenges?
About the Presentation
Join Zend Senior Product Manager Matthew Weier O’Phinney and OpenLogic Senior Solutions Engineer Sean Goodner, as they dive in on the state of PHP support within Drupal and WordPress, including discussions on:
- How Drupal and WordPress ingest PHP
- The current state of PHP support within Drupal and WordPress
- The impact of Drupal and WordPress PHP support lag on their respective ecosystems
- How companies can keep their mission-critical web apps supported despite these challenges
- And more
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Additional Resources
- Case Study - mittwald Managed Hosting Customers Stay Secure With PHP LTS From Zend
- Partnership Announcement - GoDaddy
- Solutions - Solutions for Hosting Providers
- White Paper - Planning Your Next PHP Migration
- Blog - How to Develop a WordPress Plugin
- Blog - The State of Drupal PHP Support
- Blog - The State of WordPress PHP Support
- Training Course - Developing a WordPress Plugin
Presenters
Matthew Weier O’Phinney
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.
Sean Goodner
Sean Goodner is a highly experienced Senior Solutions Engineer who has worked with open-source technologies in the Linux, Automation, Container, and DevOps tooling space for over 20 years. He has helped many large enterprises achieve success at scale with open-source software. Sean is committed to applying his knowledge to help businesses navigate and integrate the next generation of open-source tools.