This episode looks at the September 2020 issue, Under the Scope.

Topics covered

• Using middleware, especially in legacy applications.
• Use cases for serializing PHP objects.
• Cleaning up directions and cleaning up data sets.
• Development tools you should have, like Mailhog and ngrok.
• Development environments with WSL and Docker.
• Using Mozilla Observatory to assess site security.
• Decoupling and design patterns for sustainable PHP.
• PHP’s release maintainers.
• Digging into how autoloading works and improves the developer experience.
• Formation of the PHP-FIG at php[tek] in 2009.