With a year under its belt, the Laminas Project has taken impressive strides in adoption and maturity, with downloads now surpassing those of its predecessor, Zend Framework.
Get the Latest News on the Laminas Project
Join the Development Lead for the Laminas Project, Matthew Weier O’Phinney, as he discusses the successes and failures of Laminas in year one, and what developers can look forward to going forward, including:
- Adoption statistics as compared to Zend Framework.
- Lessons learned from year one of the Laminas Project.
- Ongoing improvements and community involvement.
- The roadmap for the Laminas Project in 2021 and beyond.
- And more!
Looking for a text version of the webinar? Read the blog on the Laminas project from Matthew Weier O'Phinney.
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.