About 7PHP

Intro

Hey there, my name is Wasseem Khayrattee a.k.a 7PHP and I live in Mauritius, a beautiful island in the Indian Ocean. I am very passionate about The PHP Community (#PHPc) and I’m fond of coding in PHP, the language as you would expect. I am also the founder of The PHP Usergroup for Mauritius – the first php usergroup in the island as of 2016.

Thankful To The PHP Community

Thanks to #PHPc, I have been able to attend Three Major PHP Conferences across the globe:

  • PHP North West Conference in Manchester/UK – Oct 2014
  • Sunshine PHP Conference in Miami/USA – Feb 2015
  • The BG PHP Conference in Sofia/Bulgaria – Oct 2016

In the process, I had the great honor to meet-in-person some of the PHP Rockstars as well:

  • Rasmus Lerdorf – The creator of PHP himself
  • Cal Evans – The father of The PHP Community a.k.a The PHPc Don
  • Michelangelo van Dam a.k.a The Godfather of PHPc
  • Derick Rethans – Creator of the famous xDebug
  • Sara Golemon – Core PHP Team member & HHVM
  • Matthew Weier O’Phinney – The Supreme Allied Commander of Zend Framework (he’s on my left in the picture above in greenish shirt)

See the whole list of person I met here – click.

That was a DREAM COME TRUE. Thank you so much dear #PHPc and everyone that made it possible.

How 7PHP Started

In my mid-20s, as a professional web developer, I had a strong positive feeling for the opensource philosophy. During those years I had grown an unexpected passion for the PHP language (and Linux) despite the comfort and elegance which [C#/ASP].NET provided. I must admit I hated php4 the first few months. But then when I got back on the 5.x version after a year or so, I immediately got a hunch that this PHP will no more be just any scripting language, “the giant is growing day by day”. (And today in 2016/2017, I can say I was right in my belief!)

To further cultivate my love for PHP and to help me keep in touch, this blog (7php.com) was born on the 30th March 2010. At that time, this blog used to be mainly a medium for me to share my day-to-day experience with PHP and everything that is directly or indirectly linked with PHP. (“Writing on a subject matter on a regular basis, undoubtedly boost the probability of you getting better at it”).

But as from YEAR 2011, 7php.com has matured more into a platform where I carry regular interviews with Prominent PHP elePHPants, Members and Entities that form part of The amazing and magical PHP Community. And THANKS to it, I’m known online to The Global PHP Community as 7PHP.

Please see the About The 7PHP Logo – click

The Wasseem Khayrattee Avatar

I do use the following avatar-me around the online-sphere so that you recognise me.

Wasseem Khayrattee Avatar

The Below Me When I Was Younger – in YEAR 2010

Year 2010 when I attended Microsoft Tech Days in Mauritius

6 Comment(s)

  1. Hello!

    Hmm finally I found the time to drop by your blog! You have a very nice one going on here! and highly technical! 😉
    So you are a php lover…and i nearly failed that module back at Uni! -_-‘

    anyway, all the best php-ing! 😉

    Take Care!
    Aniisah

  2. Hi Aniisah!

    it’s indeed a nice surprise to see you here 😉 Thank you so much for the appreciation. 😉

    I think the thing with PHP, as any other language, is that you need to really show a bit of care to it, it’s like a baby.. give it close attention and affection 🙂 – I will say specially for PHP.
    Because PHP is something which many of us learn from the web (since it originated from a collaboration via the web). It can be very simple, but also confusing if you don’t pay enough of attention due to some its unique traits (like being loosely typed language). But I’m sure if you again get the chance to work with it, you will do nice. Except if you are a microsoft or java addict. 😀

    //Wasseem

  3. You’re blogging has really come on when I look back over previous posts. Actually I arrived here from a forum on an unrelated topic. Worth surfing sometimes. Thanks.



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