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title: Things you should know about PHP
description: An introduction to PHP, presented to the Swansea Software Development Community (SSDC) meetup and PHPSW.
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        name: PHP South West
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An introduction to PHP, presented to the Swansea Software Development Community (SSDC) meetup and PHP South West.