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PHP Core developer and Documentation maintainer. Pure Mathematics B.Sc. from Imperial College London I speak 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵 Amateur photograph

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/Girgias

Name: Gina Peter Banyard
Location: London, United Kingdom
Company: @ThePHPF
Kind: user
Followers: 377
Following: 73
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Repositories count: 65
Created at: 2022-11-14T07:46:36.112Z
Updated at: 2025-03-30T10:12:43.775Z
Last synced at: 2025-03-30T10:12:43.775Z

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My OSS works revolves around PHP.
By working on the PHP engine and bundled extensions (php-src) where I re-factor code, and provide implementations for technical language changes to PHP.
I'm also a very active PHP documentation maintainer to improve its quality, completeness, and tooling around it. Moreover, I'm the current main French translator for the PHP documentation.
I'm the lead developer of the PHP CSV extension which is an attempt at improving handling of CSV strings and files in PHP compared to the currently built-in CSV functions.
It can be installed via PECL.
Sponsoring me is a way to ensure the active maintenance of PHP, creation of new language features, new extensions, and proper documentation.
PHP RFCs I wrote or am a co-author:

Accepted:

PHP 8.1:

Pure intersection types
Deprecate implicit non-integer-compatible float to int conversions
Explicit octal integer literal notation
Deprecations for PHP 8.1 (Co-authored)

PHP 8.0:

Saner Numeric Strings
Locale-independent float to string cast (Co-authored)

Declined:

Namespace in Core (Co-authored)
Rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON (Co-authored)
Deprecate PHP Short open tags (Initial RFC and Follow-up RFC)

Notable PHP documentation contributions:

Type Declaration page
Improvement to the error handling and exception docs