The Northeast PHP Conference is a community conference intended for networking and collaboration in the developer community. While grounded in PHP, the conference is not just about PHP. Talks on web technology, user experience, and IT management help PHP developers broaden their skill sets. We are entirely non-profit. Our organizers and and speakers volunteer their time to create a community event experience on par with the big technology conferences. We value the participation of each member of the PHP community, so follow @NEPHP on Twitter for updates and don’t miss out!
In December 2015 PHP 7.0 was released, marking a new milestone for PHP and web application developers. Looking at the changelog and removed functions we thought all was going to be easy to migrate to PHP 7.0. Unfortunately many of the extensions and tools we use weren't ready yet. In December 2016 PHP 7.1 was released and the urgency to update became real as PHP 5.6 was nearing end-of-life. In this talk I describe the analysis and the challenges we faced migrating towards PHP 7.1 so you can learn how to defeat those challenges if you plan to migrate too.