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PHP Town Hall

PHP Town Hall

Ben Edmunds, Matt Trask

PHP Town Hall is a podcast from Ben Edmunds and Matt Trask that raises questions about current events (or upcoming things) in the PHP community, with different guests each episode.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best PHP Town Hall episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to PHP Town Hall for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite PHP Town Hall episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

PHP Town Hall - Episode 36: PSR-7 and The World of Tomorrow
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02/03/15 • 52 min

Two awesome guests join this week, from two different framework projects, both who have been very vocal about their interest in PSR-7: HTTP Message. These two chaps were Hari K T and Matthew Weier O’Phinney.

Now PSR chats can be a little boring when its about autoloading or tabs v bloody spaces, but this PSR could have some really big impact on the way you write PHP over the next few years.

We talk a bunch about Aura and Zend and their plans around middlewares, what motivated Matthew to get involved with taking over PSR-7, what middlewares mean for PHP in general and some of the concerns that have been fixed in recent iterations of the PSR like mutability, streams, etc.

There also a bit of chat about turtles, standing desks and broken ribs, while Phil slowly goes loopy on pain killers.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 59: Startup Lyfe - Part 2
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10/23/18 • 97 min

Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Mike Wales, Chris Boden, and Daniel Cousineau once again, to finish our discussion about working at and founding startups.

This is part two of two.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 66: Getting Jitty Wit It
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05/15/19 • 45 min

Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Joe Watkins to discuss what’s new with PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 64: Symfony Round Up
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04/08/19 • 56 min

Matt Trask and Amanda Folson are joined by Ryan Weaver to take a look at the landscape of the Symfony Ecosystem.

They discuss a few new packages from the Symfony team such as Mailer, HTTP Interface, API Platform as well as discussing the EU’s funding of a 48 hour hackathon that Ryan woke up at 3am in the morning for.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 73: The League of Extraordinary FIG
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03/03/20 • 44 min

Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Woody Gilk. We talk about what its like to birth a framework, and then mercilessly kill it. We also talk about how Woody got involved with the League of Extraordinary Packages and how someone can get involved with the PHP FIG.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 72: 200 OK Boomer
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02/02/20 • 56 min

Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds sit down for a general catch up episode discussing what’s new with them in the past year or so. Jobs, moves, relationships, and Matt’s developing delusion that he actually enjoys impossible burgers.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 71: Forging Happy Developers
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01/14/20 • 37 min

Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by James Brooks to discuss what it’s like working for Laravel, his new podcast HappyDev, and mental health for software developers.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 46: Christmas Theraphpy
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12/28/15 • 70 min

Ben and Phil have a little catch-up to try and get things back on track after a little 2015 lag. Basically this episode is just Sober Phil having a massive vent about how daft some people are on the Internet.

For some reason he accidentally read some /r/lolphp and got into an argument about how they think that PHP 7 is purely a cosmetic change. This was a good excuse to re-emphisize what an awesome set of fundamental changes PHP 7 really was.

Ben and Phil then discuss the FIGs identity crisis before Phil goes off on another ramble about that. We’ll cover that better on later episodes!

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 34: /dev/hell Mashup
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01/09/15 • 93 min

This is a big one. We’ve had Chris “The Grumpy Programmer” Hartjes and Ed “The Grumpy Podcaster” Finkler on our show before, but this time they both join us for a mashup!

We talk about the perils of being opinionated people speaking in public. Chris basically just says fuck Reddit and all of its minions of evil, and Phil gives a bit of insight into why he gets stuck in so many arguments.

We move on to chatting about PHP, and how people feel about a strong new demand for more async features. Is it better to leave that to other tools, or should we try and fit some into the language itself, and the ecosystem around it?

The last chunk of this podcast ends with a discussion around CodeIgniter 3.0 supporting PHP 5.2 and up. Should it be higher? Is it feckless to release like this? Should this be a documentation change to warn users away or a hard change to make it not even work there?

Also, who has the best beard? Hint: it isn’t Phil.

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PHP Town Hall - Episode 77: Lets be Frank
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09/02/20 • 49 min

Matt and Ben are joined by the League of Extraordinary Packages chief benevolent dictator for life Frank De Jonge (@frankdejonge. Its pronounced “de-yong”, not like how Matt pronounced it. He is sorry). We talk about Frank’s contributions to the League, and how it makes him feel to have a package download count in the 8 digits. Frank also talks about his work on Eventsauce (eventsauce.io) an event driven framework that integrates well into most PHP projects.

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FAQ

How many episodes does PHP Town Hall have?

PHP Town Hall currently has 82 episodes available.

What topics does PHP Town Hall cover?

The podcast is about Javascript, Tech, Ruby, Php, Development, Software, Podcasts, Dev, Technology, App and Programming.

What is the most popular episode on PHP Town Hall?

The episode title 'Episode 73: The League of Extraordinary FIG' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on PHP Town Hall?

The average episode length on PHP Town Hall is 63 minutes.

How often are episodes of PHP Town Hall released?

Episodes of PHP Town Hall are typically released every 30 days, 4 hours.

When was the first episode of PHP Town Hall?

The first episode of PHP Town Hall was released on Oct 10, 2012.

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