🎄Christmas Offer – Automation with Flow in PHP
on December 24, 2025
Christmas Offer – Automation with Flow in PHP
For the holiday season, Darkwood is offering a special Christmas deal on its Automation with Flow training in PHP.
This training is aimed at PHP developers who want to go beyond classic architectures, structure their applications around explicit pipelines and adopt principles from functional programming to gain readability, reliability and maintainability.
Why Flow?
Modern programming increasingly relies on mastering data flows. Flow (formerly Railway-Flow-Based-Programming) is an approach inspired by Railway Oriented Programming, where processes are chained together in the form of clear and deterministic pipelines.
Each step explicitly transforms the data, with error handling integrated into the flow itself. This approach facilitates:
- understanding complex processes, * separation of responsibilities, * reuse of components, * reduction of side effects.
Flow is particularly suited to systems where stability, predictability and robustness are key criteria.
Functional Programming Applied in PHP
The training explores the integration of functional programming principles into the PHP ecosystem:
- pure functions, * immutability, * higher-order functions, * composition and declarative pipelines.
These concepts allow for the design of more predictable and less error-prone applications, while remaining compatible with the constraints and real-world uses of PHP in production.
Recursion and Y-Combinator in PHP
PHP does not inherently facilitate functional recursion, especially in the context of anonymous functions. This course introduces the Y Combinator, a concept from lambda calculus, which allows for the definition of anonymous recursive functions.
This approach paves the way for more expressive and reusable code structures, particularly for:
- complex recursive processing, * dynamic pipelines, * advanced iterative transformations.
Chunk computing and performance
Chunk computing involves breaking down large processes into smaller segments to optimize resource usage.
Applied to PHP and combined with Flow, this model allows:
- improved memory management, * more responsive processing, * more stable execution on large volumes of data.
This is a particularly relevant approach for automation, massive imports, or intensive transformation pipelines.
Lambda Interpreter and code as data approach
The course also offers the implementation of a Lambda interpreter in PHP, inspired by Church's lambda calculus.
This interpreter allows you to:
- manipulate functional expressions in the form of strings, * dynamically evaluate transformations, * experiment with currified combinators and calls.
Integrated into Flow, this tool offers a new perspective: functions become entities that can be manipulated, tested and composed dynamically, bringing the architecture closer to a code as data model.
A training program focused on sustainable architecture
This training is not limited to isolated examples. It aims to transmit a methodology and a way of thinking about data flows, transformation, performance and maintainability in modern PHP applications.
It is aimed at developers who wish to:
- structuring complex systems, * improving the quality of existing code, * exploring advanced concepts while remaining pragmatic.
🎄 Christmas Special Offer
As part of the holiday season, Darkwood is offering an exceptional deal:
- €69 * One-time payment (no subscription) * Offer valid until December 31st inclusive
👉 Access the training: https://www.bonzai.pro/matyo91/shop/48ov_2168/automation-avec-flow-en-php?p=pri_AZzJ_7623
About Darkwood
Darkwood supports developers and organizations in designing sustainable software architectures based on clear, measurable, and controlled principles.
The objective: to understand the technical foundations for building robust, scalable and truly maintainable systems over time.