Today PSR-7 got the ‘accepted’ state after quite a long journey. This is the result of the hard work of many people, but in particular Matthew Weier O’Phinney who did an amazing job herding cats with class.

Despite my concerns and my lone vote against the proposal, I’m excited to see this become the standard. It’s long overdue and it’s time for PHP to move on from its clumsy superglobals. I’m also very interested to see if my concerns around the immutability aspect of the objects turned out to be unfounded.

Further reading:

• PSR-7.
• Matthew’s announcement.
• PSR-7 by example.
• Conduit, an example of a project using PSR-7.