Top Shelf PHP

Attendee prerequisites for this tutorial are listed below.

This tutorial will cover a number of libraries that are pushing PHP forward to exciting new places. Expect a primer on subject of dependency injection and object composition, followed by introductions to a number of PHP frameworks, libraries and tools including Symfony2, the Doctrine MongoDB ODM, the Twig templating language, the asset management framework Assetic, and PHPUnit. Once these quick tours are done we will demonstrate the rapid development of a sample application the integrates them all.

PREREQUISITES

You should have the following software installed and running on your laptop when you arrive at the tutorial.

• Apache
• PHP 5.3
• pear
• pecl mongo extension
• MongoDB
• Git

MACINTOSH

If you use Macintosh you can install PHP 5.3 using Homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation
Note: this requires that you install Xcode, which should be available on your Mac OS X installation DVD, or as a rather large download from connect.apple.com.

You can then install PHP with the following command: brew install—with-intl https://raw.github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/master/duplicates/php.rb

You can also use the brew command to install MongoDB and Git: brew install mongodb git

WINDOWS

Download and install Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22

Windows binaries for PHP are available here: http://windows.php.net/download/

Instructions for installing MongoDB on Windows can be found here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart+Windows

Install Git using mysysGit: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list

LINUX

Ensure that git is installed via your package manager.

In addition to installing PHP 5.3 for your webserver of choice, be sure to install php5-cli and php5-intl.

MongoDB 1.8, in either binary or packaged form, may be downloaded here: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

PECL and PEAR libraries

Install the Mongo driver using PECL: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/PHP+Language+Center

Install PHPUnit 3.5.14 using PEAR: http://www.phpunit.de/manual/3.5/en/installation.html

Install Behat 2.0 and Mink 1.0 using PEAR: http://pear.behat.org/

QUESTIONS for the speaker?: Use the “Leave a Comment or Question” section at the bottom to address them OR email the speaker at kris [dot] wallsmith [at] gmail [dot] com.