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For the past 4 years, GraphQL has offered developers a compelling new way to think about your API. What does it change for us, PHP developers? In this article, we will see very quickly what makes GraphQL a special protocol. Then, we will have a quick look at the GraphQL landscape in the PHP land before diving in the details of GraphQLite, a framework-agnostic PHP library to serve a GraphQL API easily.

There are a lot of comparisons between the big three frontend JavaScript frameworks Angular, Vue and React. But there is no winner. Each framework has its advantages and disadvantages and in the end it’s a question of personal preference which framework or library you choose for your application. Every solution follows a different approach. On the one side you have Angular with a lot of structure, best practices and patterns and on the other side there is React which only provides you the basic structure and lets you decide the rest. Vue, the third contender, is located between these two extremes. But how do you start the development process of an application when your tool doesn’t tell you where to begin?

In this talk and demo, Ben will show how implementing an identity provider and using OAuth and OpenID Connect can allow you to ramp up your prototypes and MVPs with more ease and to concentrate on the core purpose of the APIs , rather than the layers of security that are a must in today’s digital world.

Since the end of 2018, PHP 5.x is no longer being supported. This means in particular that any vulnerability discovered since the beginning of January 2019 is and will remain a zero-day vulnerability - meaning there will be no patch for it. But what can we say about the security of PHP 7.x as compared to PHP 5.x?

This year's keynotes have been as diverse as the world of Web Development itself. From HTML Treasure Hunt to PHP goes Hack migration to Social Enterprise—there is a video for everyone!

Functional programming is trending now. Many programming languages now provide good support for developing code functionally. PHP also contains mechanisms for functional programming. Unfortunately, other paradigms, such as good legibility or good understanding of the code, often get lost along the way; but it doesn’t have to be that way!

Due to the upcoming IPC, we talked to Taylor Lovett, Vice President of Engineering at 10up, one of the largest WordPress-centric agencies in the world. Taylor Lovett will attend the IPC's Sessions „Effective Continuous Integration for Enterprise WordPress Applications“ and „WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise“.