Talk in English - US at Longhorn PHP 2026
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Main Ballroom
View Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1otSdDNjK272OWCGi18Lg9B8Fl3NBZHL9CLsRWqqjHo0/edit?usp=sharing
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/54d89
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Join PHP core developer and veteran release manager Daniel Scherzer for a deep dive into the new features, syntax updates, deprecations, and surprises coming in PHP 8.6. While PHP 8.6 is still in the release candidate phase, now is the time to start preparing to upgrade.
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Great talk Daniel! Entertaining, informative, and a great technical talk. Thanks for having the slides available ahead of time.
Good info, but I think this could benefit from more real-world or sample app examples. As it stands I can't think of how I could use the reflection improvements, the polling stuff, and the URI/URL stuff in a real-world app. The partial function applications sample code was good, so maybe the rest of the features could use similar examples.
Separately, just for PHP8.6 itself, I do not think all of these ? all over the place are going to decrease the cognitive load of reading code. I can just "see" my boss seeing that in the code and making me take them all out.