2022 has been a banner year for PHP. With the launch of a new PHP Foundation, countless new innovations in both the language and the ecosystem, and an increasing number of teams using PHP to build or modernize their applications, the momentum and excitement within the PHP community is palpable.
But will that momentum continue to grow? And how can PHP teams leverage new and emerging trends within the language and ecosystem as they cement their strategies for 2023?
About the Webinar
In this on-demand webinar, Zend Product Manager Matthew Weier O’Phinney and a special guest on this on-demand webinar discuss:
- Notable events and evolutions for PHP in 2022, including PHP 7.4 EOL and the launch of PHP 8.2
- The short and long-term outlook for PHP as a language and an ecosystem
- New features, technologies, and trends that teams can expect to see in 2023
- 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.