PHP Tek 2026
19 - 21 May 2026
at Sheraton O'Hare Suites
Talk comments
Good info, but I’m not sure I feel comfortable shifting all the heavy responsibility of everything my legacy app does in jQuery to HTMX. You guys have clearly not seen our jQuery 🤣 I think HTMX suffers from the same problem as Tailwind: sufficiently complex systems are gonna end up with miles-long attributes that are hard to read and understand.
Where I think this WOULD work is simple apps. Simple HTML. Still, I’m going to try it out when i get time, build a sample app. I think I might use a middleware to transform my existing rest API into an HTML response and wish that that doesn’t blow up. Should be fun 🤩
Good talk, I think I might’ve heard it once before at another con but absolutely nothin’ wrong with hearing it again.
What would make this talk amazing is more of a call to action to people to get involved. Go MAKE an RFC. Go VOTE. There was no info that I saw on how to get into that, which is what I was low-key hoping to get out of it.
It’s okay though, Larry and Daniel have it covered for us 🤣
An informative talk which taught me that Daniel can write code that can break anything, even upstream code that “should” be backwards compatible.
One topic that wasn’t covered as much as I was hoping was, as a maintainer how do I avoid making backwards-incompatible changes? Are there any tips and tricks to that? As an open-source maintainer (tho not the PHP core) I would love to know.
I’m gonna have to review this while putting the violin serenade out of my memory, because with that in place I’d rate this a zillion. I’m a violin nerd and often listen while coding.
Very interesting and insightful information and the comparisons between symphonic (sp?) concepts and software concepts were powerful and strongly convincing.
Dealing with egos is a complex and pervasive problem and it’s a bit…relieving, honestly…to know that it’s a human problem and not an industry problem.
Some additional useful information especially if you also saw the Zero Trust talk. And like that talk, this had useful lists and frameworks to take home and study. As someone who’s never run a fire drill or a live warroom, I wish there had been a little more discussion of how those usually go or advice on how to structure them. One of the most useful pieces of information is not to shut down the server after it’s compromised. I am going to go home and create a runbook on how to capture a memory snapshot, because we need to be able to do that. Thank you!
A very useful talk that has given me a lot to think about and be introspective of to improve the relationships I have with my leaders and coworkers. I especially liked the “5 expectations for working with me” which is something I did early on at my latest job, totally by accident, but it has worked well with me. Important to realize that your expectations may change over time, and that’s okay, but you have to communicate it.
So many great talks this week, but I think this one will provide most value to our day-to-day. I honestly can’t think of any improvement, aside from making it into a workshop. Thank you!
The content was good, but the slidedeck was really hard to read and gave me a headache rather quickly. One suggestion is to sneak into the room early and view your slides from the back of the room and the middle of the room -- if you can't see them, neither can your audience. Also, light mode is better for accessibility than dark mode on conference projectors.
Great, concise overview of all the SQL functionality you’ve afraid to use & unsure when to broach it.
Great talk! Super practical tips for a constantly changing technology