PHPSW: PhpSpec and Unconventional PHP, August 2020
12 Aug 2020 at Online

The term "Behaviour Driven Development" is commonplace at the (user) story level, but how about at the code specification level? This talk will explain where PhpSpec enters the equation, discuss how it does and doesn't differ to PhpUnit and demonstrate its power to force you to think about the architecture of your code.

You might think you know PHP, but if you dig below the surface you might find it can do more than you knew. Beyond the documented features, there lies a world of tricks, hacks and other techniques that can allow PHP to go a step further. In this talk we'll look outside the box at some things PHP provides like references, autoloading and magic methods and explore how using them in an unconventional way can benefit our own code.