Christopher Hertel

Thanks for joining - it was great having you! :)

On my way back from Berlin and wow, what an awesome trip!

The hackday went great 💪
@chr-hertel.bsky.social did an amazing work cooking #Symfony AI, yet there’s a million more things to do.

Want to have an impact on your favorite framework? There’s no better time. Come on 🤗

If you want to help a big open source project form the beginning. Have a look here.

Symfony AI just became public with a lot of cool stuff but it is a bit rough on the edges. Help us make it shine in the next few weeks

Cyprus Symfony/PHP Meetup, Wed, Jun 25, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Join us for the very first **Symfony/PHP Meetup in Cyprus**, bringing together developers passionate about modern PHP and the Symfony framework! 📍 **Location:** SOHO Offi

This month SensioLabs is organizing the first-ever #Symfony meetup in sunny Cyprus 😎🏺

Join Silas Joisten & @chr-hertel.bsky.social as they explore exciting #PHP and Symfony topics

📅 25.06.2025 starting at 19:00
📍 SOHO Office, Limassol
👉 Register here: bit.ly/3Fx3ubc

PHP meetup - May, Wed, May 21, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup We are happy to announce a PHP event for May. [Weahead](https://www.weahead.se/) has generously agreed to host us and [Stefna](https://www.stefna.is/en-gb) will be our food

On Wednesday we will have our next PHP Stockholm meetup. We are getting two sharp speakers from Germany.

Welcome ‪Denis Brumann and @chr-hertel.bsky.social

www.meetup.com/php-stockhol...

GitHub - php-llm/llm-chain: PHP library for building LLM-based features and applications. PHP library for building LLM-based features and applications. - php-llm/llm-chain

Just released LLM Chain 0.20 with low-level support for HuggingFace Inference API and TransformersPHP, running ONNX models via FFI - not straight forward, but possible.

github.com/php-llm/llm-...

That was fun! Thanks for having me - find my slides on speakerdeck:
speakerdeck.com/el_stoffel/a...

🔴We just had , "Agentic Applications with Symfony" by Christopher Hertel !
#Symfony_Live Berlin 2025 😄

@nicolasgrekas.bsky.social kicking off #SymfonyLive in Berlin - Happy to have this event back in the city ❤️

🚀 The wait is over! SymfonyLive Berlin 2025 begins tomorrow! Two days filled with conferences, networking, and exciting tech insights. 🎤✨
Who’s joining us? 😃
#Symfony_Live

Getting ready for the live demo ... #SymfonyLive

GitHub - php-llm/ecosystem: A list of AI & LLM frameworks and libraries in PHP A list of AI & LLM frameworks and libraries in PHP - php-llm/ecosystem

Sharing now a list of interesting PHP projects as a listicle on GitHub:
github.com/php-llm/ecos...

Feel free to add, comment and share.

Over the past months (or years?), I've spent countless hours exploring what's already available, what's missing, and how to effectively integrate LLM capabilities into PHP projects.

While popular frameworks like LangChain primarily support Python and TypeScript, the beauty of Open Source is that we can change that and level up the PHP ecosystem for LLM development.

Since most LLMs - whether from Google, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, or even tools like Ollama - are accessible via HTTP APIs, why limit ourselves to just a few languages when those APIs are language-agnostic?

Why use PHP when working with LLM?
Isn't it easier with TypeScript and Python? Actually... not necessarily!

🎤Meet #Symfony_Live Berlin 2025 speakers
Go beyond chat with Symfony and AI with Christopher Hertel! Explore agentic applications, learn key concepts, and see how AI can automate and enhance your business processes⤵️ https://symfony.com/blog/symfonylive-berlin-2025-agentic-applications-with-symfony

Thrilled to announce the launch of the new #Twig playground! Powered by PHP wasm, everything operates directly in the browser. It lets you try out Twig templates online. The state is preserved in the URL for easy sharing, perfect for bug reports. https://buff.ly/3Dq1W15

So, I've been working on a library to integrate PHP applications easily with LLMs and just wrapped up a Symfony demo application, that helps to understand how to get started: github.com/php-llm/symf...

Happy about feedback, ideas and contributions!

Conductor - Automatic dependency updates for Composer Automatic dependency updates for Composer - tailor made for PHP. Grouped and scheduled in ways that just make sense for PHP projects.

We're excited to introduce you to 🧑‍✈️Conductor! Automatic dependency update PRs with Composer for PHP projects - Security fixes patched in minutes - Continuous updates without the hassle - all running in your own CI env!

Early access waitlist: packagist.com/features/con...

#composerphp #php #phpc

Arrived in Vienna, checked into the hotel and even have my power adapter with me - incredible how flawless #SymfonyCon starts!
Just can't wait for the workshops to start tomorrow morning! See you there!

Time is ticking ... #SymfonyCon

Make it worse and pretend it's art

If you need some practical examples and guidance on work culture and communication it is always great to watch Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay. That guy nails it.

Alright #SymfonyCon, that'll be fun!