Florian Engelhardt

Florian is a father of five, developer, architect, tech lead, geek and still sometimes finds time to contribute to open source. He started writing software with PHP in September 2000 and will try to convince you to use vim.

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Growing the PHP Core – One Test at a Time

By Florian Engelhardt

In September 2000, I started my vocational training at an internet agency with two teams: one doing JavaServer Pages and one doing PHP. I was assigned to the PHP team, and when presented with the language, I immediately knew that no one would ever use it. I was wrong. Today, my entire career is built on PHP. It’s time to give back to the community by writing tests for the PHP core itself!

Published in Testing The Core, April 2022