I was recently invited to speak about functional programming in PHP for both BrightonPHP and PHP Hampshire. The details of which are in a previous blog post.
If you attended either talk and you’ve yet to leave feedback then please do on the respective Joind.in pages:
You can view the slides from the sessions on my website. I created the slides using reveal.js and my pandoc boilerplate project.
The main take-aways from the talk are:
- Avoid state
- Keep things small
- Make reusable components
- Separate logic from data
These principles apply no matter whether you’re writing in a functional style or object oriented approach. Learning functional programming is great idea even if you do not intend to use it day to day. Things you learn in a functional paradigm are directly applicable to your object oriented code too.
You should follow @BrightonPHP and @PHPHants to keep up to date with these meetups in the future.
I enjoyed presenting at both events and it was great to meet you all!
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If you are interested in finding out more about my book on functional programming in PHP or to subscribe for notification of its release please visit functionalphp.com or follow @FunctionalPHP on Twitter.