We're excited to be back in Reading! It's great to return to The Thirsty Bear — PHP Berkshire's old home — who've kindly welcomed us back and generously supporting our meetup.
And yes, there’ll be FREE pizza 🍕 thanks to this month's sponsor, Meet with Tech , a new platform for events and communities launching this June.
The venue is about a 12-minute walk from Reading station. We'll be on the first floor — the stairs are next to the bar on the left as you come in.
Arrive early to grab a slice, hang out, and meet fellow developers before the talks kick off, and feel free to stay afterwards for more networking.
Drinks can be purchased individually at the upstairs bar, which will be open for us throughout the evening.
Originally we had two talks lined up, but unfortunately both Christopher and James had to pull out at the last minute. Luckily, we're now able to welcome one of PHP's core contributors instead!
PHP's Type System Dissected by Gina Banyard
PHP has acquired a solid type system over the last few years and versions. But what is the meaning of a type, a type system, and a subtyping relation?
In this talk, we will cover these topics using PHP's type system and some formal theory, see how PHP stores and checks types, what is Liskov's Substitution Principle (LSP) and how it is enforced by PHP during inheritance.
About the speaker: Gina is funded to works as a PHP core developer by The PHP Foundation. They also maintain the PHP documentation and are the lead maintainer of the French translation of it.
A big thank to our community sponsor Humand Talent for supporting the Oxfordshire and Berkshire PHP communities.
Planned schedule of the evening:
- 18:30 – Arrival
- 19:00 – Talk
- 20:00 – Networking
- 20:30 – End of the event