Derick Rethans
Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions, the PHP language, and related projects.
He works for the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, and continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms. He is a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.
Montreal 2025 sessions
Better Debugging With Xdebug
English session - Intermediate
In this talk I explain how to use Xdebug to get more productive writing PHP code, focussing on the improvements in Xdebug 3.2 and 3.3, and the upcoming 3.4, to make the debugging experience better and easier to set up.
Beyond that, this session also goes through a few complicated scenarios that are harder to debug, and shows solutions to these conundrums. I will also focus on the new features, such as native path mapping.
What's new in PHP 8.4
English session - Beginner
During this presentation, we are going to look at the new features that are going to be introduced in PHP 8.4. Join me to have a look at Property Hooks, Asynchronous Visibility, Improved HTML5 parsing, and many other features.
At the end you will have a good understanding about all the new and exciting features that are part of the PHP 8.4 release
