For teams maintaining a large number of end-of-life PHP-based applications, the temptation or pressure to build and deploy patched PHP versions in-house can be strong. But even for teams staffed for a sustained PHP-building effort, this temptation can have unexpected — and often costly — consequences.
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About the Webinar
In this live webinar featuring Zend Product Manager Matthew Weier O’Phinney, he will detail why building PHP in-house can lead to issues that ultimately impact the success of businesses, including discussions on:
- The risks of working with end-of-life PHP
- Why teams choose to build PHP in house and why many ultimately fail
- Cost-effective alternatives to building PHP in house
- And more!
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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.