Larry Garfield

Larry Garfield is an aspiring blacksmith who moonlights as a Staff Engineer for LegalZoom. Since 2017 he has been a member of the PHP-FIG Core Committee. PSR-8 compatible.

Articles by Larry Garfield

PER-CS 3.1 released

The PHP-FIG Coding Standard Working Group (there's a mouthful) is happy to announce the release of the PER-CS 3.1 coding standards guidelines. This is a modest addition to the previous 3.0 release to cover language features added since 3.0 was published. Largely, that just means catching up with PHP 8.5. There are al...

August 28th 2026

php-fig per-cs

Announcing the new PHP-FIG Discord server

Greetings, PHP-FIG! With regards to the recent thread about migrating from a mailing list to some other medium, there has been some internal discussion off-list of late on that topic that I'd like to share. First of all, no, the mailing list is not going to go away. The list is and will remain the official location for...

December 21st 2020

php-fig discord

Upgrading PSR interface

PHP-FIG wants your help to modernize PSRs! Greetings, PHP. The PHP Framework Interoperability Group is actively looking for feedback on a way to safely update and modernize several existing PSRs. We think this is a workable approach, but before embarking on it we want to get feedback from the broader community. That me...

October 4th 2019

php-fig bylaws