PHP

Today's web applications require frequent updates, not just by adding or upgrading its features, but by maintaining and improving the software's existing code base. This tutorial teaches PHP developers how to use Jenkins, the popular continuous integration server, to monitor various aspects of software quality through continuous integration and continuous inspection. Read more.

A look at the state of PHP in 2012 and how it fits into the current technology stack. The session will cover common mistakes and a detailed review of new PHP 5.4 features. Read more.

Did you know that the newest version of PHP ships with its own development server? This talk discusses when this might be useful (and when it isn't!) and also covers a selection of the other features new in PHP. Read more.

For the last twelve years we've been giving conference talks and writing books about how to develop for the web in PHP. Over that time we've made a bunch of recommendations: some still hold true, and some things have changed quite a bit since 2000. We'll talk about how the landscape's changed, and how and when you should change the way you work. Read more.

Here's the scenario: you wrote a PHP application that is designed to run on Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Now you have a customer that wants to run it on Windows. Or using Oracle. Or they like using Memcache instead of APC. How do you do it, without sacrificing performance, stability, simplicity, and your own sanity? learn what it takes to make that project a success. Read more.

Whether you're consumer or provider, getting the API right is a puzzle. This session gives the best practices for making this relationship easier all round, with clear PHP-based examples and a few war stories to go with them. Read more.

Dependency Inversion is an important technique of object oriented software design and one of Uncle Bob's S.O.L.I.D. principles. In this talk I'll show you what this means and how modern PHP dependency injection containers can help you massively. I will especially highlight rg\injection, a new, fetaure rich container inspired by google-guice. Read more.

PHP has rarely been a fashionable language, so it's probably no surprise that it is not high fashion for startups today. What advantages influence the startups that choose it? Ignoring loss of hipster cred, what real disadvantages do they face? What features of other language ecosystems are missing or underused in PHP? Read more.

When dealing with databases, developers frequently run into the N+1 problem, in which they populate domain objects via queries in loops. This causes terrible performance drags. The talk shows how to solve the N+1 problem in plain PHP as well as Postgres. It concludes with a way of automating the PHP side, and includes editorializing about the origins of the N+1 problem in the developer mindset. Read more.

So you know the PHP language back to front, you know all the frameworks, and you've churned out countless native PHP modules in C -- but have you ever wondered how you might toy with the PHP language itself? Come along and learn a little more about the inside of your favourite programming language as I guide you through the process of adding a new keyword to the language. Read more.

Automated software testing is an widely-adopted standard today. Unfortunately there exist applications that are not testable by their design. In the first part of the session it is shown how the dynamic nature of PHP can be used to manipulate such dependencies. In the second part of the session an additional layer gets introduced which transforms parts of components into testable code fragments. Read more.

Most developers are developers, not DBAs, yet many smaller companies have inadequate database experience in-house. This is largely because databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL don't necessarily require a full-time DBA to administer. It's become more important for developers at smaller companies to have some basic knowledge of how to keep their database happy. Read more.

A stellar user experience and social indicators can be the difference between the checkout and back buttons. Learn how to work with and integrate facebook's new Open Graph APIs within magento. The session will provide a walkthrough of the facebook and magento setup, along with examples of customized user experiences which make the most of Open Graph and magento. Read more.