{"id":5770,"date":"2018-11-01T08:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/modern-php\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T08:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:24:20","slug":"modern-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/modern-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90047416?color=00adef\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>With all of the advances that have come in PHP 5.5 (as well as 5.4 and 5.3), modern PHP code no longer looks like the PHP code from years ago. <\/p>\n<p>In this March 6th, 2014 presentation, Ben Ramsey glimpses into PHP\u2019s past to see where we\u2019ve come from and how we got where we are today, exploring how modern PHP applications are architected now to take full use of the newer features in PHP to produce cleaner, more stable, and easier to maintain codebases.<\/p>\n<p>About Ben: Ben Ramsey has been developing and designing software for sixteen years and has been writing and speaking about software development for ten of those years. 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