Our first Oklahoma PHP User Group meeting in a few years happened on Thursday, February 20th 2014, thanks to the efforts of Jake A. Smith who contacted me about it (as I ran the previous PHPUG a few years ago) and did all the legwork to make it happen. We are now going to co-organize the user group going forward.

After a meet & greet fueled by pizza and soda, I presented a short introductory talk on Composer, which also covered using and publishing packages to Packagist. The turnout was fairly small – around 12 people or so, but everyone was excited that the user group was happening, and there were lots of beginners and new faces.

Our meetings are going to be on the 3rd Thursday of each month. All our meeting times, descriptions, etc. will be posted on our Meetup Page. Our March plans are tentative, but we plan to do a PHP Foundations talk that will cover all the basics like Namespaces, PHP-FIG standards, code organization, etc. so it should be a great meeting for begineers and those who are not familiar with what the larger PHP community is doing. You can RSVP on the Meetup page to get notifications and reminder emails for upcoming meetings. Hope to see you there!