Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday 15th April – arrive 7pm for 7.15pm kickoff. This month’s speaker is Derick Rethans, who is probably best known for authoring the debugging tool Xdebug. Derick is currently at 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, and is responsible for developing and supporting the PHP MongoDB driver through development of Read More

We’re excited to announce that this month’s presentation is from Stuart Herbert. Stuart will be presenting “More Than Websites: PHP And The Firehose”. Stuart is currently at big data company Datasift, has presented at a number of conferences including PHP UK and PHPNW, and is well known in the PHP community. The meeting is Monday Read More

On 18th February, BrightonPHP and Drupal Brighton joined forces and met at The Skiff for an evening of Drupal-based presentations. Since we both meet on the same night around 200 yards away from each other, it seemed a natural thing to combine forces for one night! Steve Purkiss got things off to a great start Read More

A belated happy new year! January’s meeting took place on the 21st Jan at The Skiff, where we had a presentation by Emmanuel Ide on the state of PHP microframeworks. Emmanuel started off by giving us some background on frameworks within PHP and then moved onto the requirement for a micro framework. He covered some Read More

The most recent meeting took place on 17th December at The Skiff. Andrew Collington presented on “Dependency Injection using Pimple” – a lightweight and easy-to-use DI container. Andrew took us through useful applications of the DI container into existing legacy code, and showed examples of how you can refactor your code to use the DI Read More