International PHP Conference

02/09/2026

🧩 Make legacy PHP less scary

How do you improve old code without breaking everything?

In this hands-on workshop, Jose M. Valera Reales & Roman Frolov take you straight into the code:
🧪 secure existing behavior with tests
🔧 refactor in small, safe steps
🤝 solve problems through pair programming
💡 build skills you can use in your own projects

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

🔗 https://phpconference.com/php-core-coding/refactoring-workshop-modernizing-legacy-php-pair-programming/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

01/09/2026

🔎 What if your PHP search actually understood the question?

At Munich, Valerio Barbera takes you beyond traditional keyword matching and shows you how to build semantic search in PHP.

You’ll discover how to:
🧠 create embeddings from your content
📐 find results based on actual meaning
⚙️ store and query vectors
🛠 build a solution you can reuse in your own applications

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

🔗 https://phpconference.com/trends-gen-ai/semantic-search-php/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

31/08/2026

🤔 Monolith or microservices? Maybe you’re asking the wrong question.

Because switching to microservices doesn’t magically eliminate coupling—it can simply move it somewhere else.

In “Make Better Architecture Decisions,” Mike Lehan looks beyond the architecture debate and shows you how to build systems that stay maintainable as they grow.

🧩 Create clear domain boundaries
🔗 Reduce hidden coupling
🛰️ Combine monoliths with satellite services
🗄️ Make smarter decisions about your data

Before you plan that big architecture rewrite, give this a read. 👇

🔗 https://phpconference.com/blog/monolith-vs-microservices-reduce-coupling-architecture/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

How coupling and communication shape architecture decisions. Compare monoliths and microservices and build more maintainable systems.

29/08/2026

🤝 What if AI could make designers and developers better collaborators?

Now available on devmio: Anna Iarinovskaia explores how AI can help bridge the gap between design and development.

✨ Clearer communication
🧩 Smoother handoffs
⚙️ Less rework
🚀 Faster decisions

Discover how AI can strengthen collaboration across product teams.

Read the full article on Devmio:
https://devm.io/ux/ai-designers-developers-collaboration?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

AI makes it easier for designers and developers to work independently, but at the cost of collaboration, shared understanding, and stronger decision-making. In this article, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping the design-development relationship and how teams can use AI to move faster without losing...

28/08/2026

⚛️ Is your encryption quantum-ready?

Quantum computers could fundamentally change the security assumptions your applications rely on today.

At Munich, Marcus Bointon takes you inside post-quantum cryptography and shows you:
🔐 why current encryption is at risk
🔑 how new algorithms like ML-KEM work
🌐 what PQC means for TLS & SSH
🛡️ how you can start preparing your systems now

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

🔗 https://phpconference.com/web-development/post-quantum-encryption/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

28/08/2026

🏗️ Let the domain drive your architecture

Architecture often gets shaped by technology before the real requirements are even clear.

At Munich, Stefan Priebsch introduces Domain-Driven Architecture and shows you how to turn that process around:
🎯 Start with quality goals
🔄 Build architecture evolutionarily
📊 Make changes based on concrete thresholds
🚀 Stay flexible as your domain evolves

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

🔗 https://phpconference.com/software-architecture/domain-driven-architecture/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

27/08/2026

🏚️ Is your architecture ready for the next change?

One new feature shouldn’t force you to rethink half your application.

At Munich, discover how better architecture gives your systems room to grow, change and adapt.

🏗️ Apply Domain-Driven Design
⚙️ Build scalable, modular systems
🔄 Design for changing requirements
🚀 Make architecture decisions that last

📅 October 26–30, 2026 | Munich or Online

👉 Explore the Software Architecture & Design track:
https://phpconference.com/software-architecture/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

26/08/2026

🧩 Strategy or Decorator? Choose wisely.

When your PHP code needs different behaviors at runtime, adding another conditional isn’t always the best solution.

In “Strategy vs Decorator in PHP: Choosing the Right Design Pattern,” Mauro Chojrin explains how both patterns help you replace complex logic with flexible object composition — and where their use cases differ.

🔀 Strategy = choose one interchangeable behavior
🧱 Decorator = combine multiple behaviors
✅ Build code that’s easier to extend and test

👉 See which pattern fits your code:
https://phpconference.com/blog/strategy-vs-decorator-php-design-patterns/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

Learn when to use Strategy or Decorator in PHP, how they differ from Traits, and how object composition improves maintainability and testing.

25/08/2026

🔐 Passwords are only the beginning

How do you go from classic login to OIDC and finally to passkeys — without getting lost in protocols, tokens and buzzwords?

At Munich, Roberto Gallea takes you through the evolution of modern identity:
🔑 secure passwords & sessions
🪪 OpenID Connect & token validation
🛡️ passkeys and WebAuthn
⚙️ practical PHP examples

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

🔗 https://phpconference.com/web-security/modern-identity-oidc-passkeys/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

24/08/2026

🤖 Better context. Smarter AI.

Want to connect an LLM to your own documents and data without stitching together a fragile stack of libraries?

In “PHP RAG Tutorial: Build an AI Agent with Neuron AI”, Valerio Barbera walks you through building a RAG agent directly in PHP.
🧠 Understand how RAG works
🔎 Use embeddings and vector search
📚 Load and prepare your own knowledge base
📊 Add observability for production-ready agents

👉 Start building:
https://phpconference.com/blog/php-rag-tutorial-neuron-ai/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

Build a RAG agent in PHP with Neuron AI using embeddings, vector storage, data loading, semantic search, and observability.