University of Manchester: COMP101 Guest Lecture Monday 10th March, 11am Kilburn LT1.1 This talk will argue that PHP's bad reputation is a thing of the past and look at where and how PHP is used in the wild. We will describe some really useful tools and libraries which people can take away and play with. We will touch on the jobs market for PHP, agency working and how to get involved. We will finally talk about the huge community for PHP around the world but also specifically in Manchester. Speaker Biographies: Steph Cook @steph_cook22 and Damien Walsh @themainframe are web developers @magma_digital and recent graduates of @csmcr. Jeremy Coates @phpcodemonkey is the Managing Director of Magma Digital, the leading software development agency in Lancashire.

1. Why PHP Is Awesome
Honest.
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2. The Team
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3. Speaking today
Jeremy Coates
@phpcodemonkey
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Steph Cook
@stephcook22
Damien Walsh
@themainframe

4. “PHP is used by 81.8% of all the websites
whose server-side programming language we
know.”
– w3techs.com
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5. @magma_digital

6. So why the reputation
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7. PHP has moved on.
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8. The dark ages…
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9. //genearate a filename...
$fn_temp = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9s]/", "", $_POST[‘f_n’]);
Magic strings…
//Does it exist?
while(file_exists("/home/cocoder/.data/{$fn_temp}{$n}/"))
$n++;
?>
<h1>Project Created!</h1>
<?php
Suddenly… HTML
//DB...
$return_id = cc_core::make_project(
$_POST['n_name'],
i
($fn_temp.$n),
$_SESSION['user_id']
);
?>
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Highly procedural

10. Now…
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11. public function editAction(Request $request)
{
$this->form->handleRequest($request);
$entity = $this->form->getData();
Interact with Model
if ($this->form->isValid()) {
$this->em = $this->doctrine->getManager();
$this->em->persist($entity);
$this->em->flush();
}
}
return $this->render(
‘TestBundle:Items:edit.html.twig',
array(
'entity' => $entity,
'form'
=> $this->form->createView()
)
);
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Render View

12. The cool stuff
To make your projects easier
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13. @magma_digital

14. Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
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15. Composer
composer.json:
{
"require": {
"monolog/monolog": "1.2.*"
}
}
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16. Composer
include
include
include
include
include
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‘classes/Foo.class.php’;
‘classes/Bar.class.php’;
‘classes/OtherStuff.class.php’;
‘classes/MyClass.class.php’;
‘classes/AnotherClass.class.php’;

17. Composer
include ‘vendor/autoload.php’;
...
$foo = new Foo();
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18. Silex
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19. Silex
composer.json:
{
}
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"require": {
"silex/silex": "~1.1"
}

20. Silex
Fire up composer.
require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
$app = new SilexApplication();
Create the App
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function($name) use($app) {
return 'Hello '.$app->escape($name);
});
$app->run();
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Be safe!
Run it.
Add a route

21. Twig
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22. Twig
<ul>
{% for user in users %}
<li> {{ user.name }} </li>
{% else %}
<li>
<strong>No users have been found.</strong>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
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23. @magma_digital

24. Xdebug!
Install the extension
Install the browser extension
Setup for integration with IDE (NetBeans, PHPStorm)
Press Play
Refresh your page
Profit
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25. Codeception
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26. Codeception
$I = new WebGuy($scenario);
$I->wantTo('create a wiki page');
$I->amOnPage('/');
$I->click('Pages');
$I->click('New');
$I->see('New Page');
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27. Full Stack Frameworks
Symfony2 & Zend Framework 2
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28. @magma_digital

29. @magma_digital

30. Types of Projects
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31. @magma_digital

32. Manchester Digital has revealed that 32% of
digital organisations in the region were forced
to refuse work in 2013 due to a lack of resource,
despite 83% of businesses experiencing
growth.
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33. Get involved!
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34. @magma_digital

35. PHPNW
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36. Have we convinced
you yet
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37. All resources over here:!
http://bit.ly/phpawesome
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