Modern PHP, Standards, and Community

Learn how to structure and maintain a modern day PHP project using the latest standards. We'll walk through recent language improvements and how they will affect your day to day development. This will use code examples to give you in depth, real world examples of usage.

We'll also cover the latest community initiatives and standards including the PHPFIG along with the PSRs they have introduced.

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1. PHP
   modern
   standards &
   Community
   

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2. Who is this guy?
   Ben Edmunds
   @benedmunds
   http://benedmunds.com
   

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3. Who is this guy?
   Ben Edmunds
   Open Source
   Author
   PHP Town Hall Podcast
   CTO at Mindfulware
   

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4. Welcome to
   the Future
   

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5. Welcome to the Future
   Exceptions
   Namespaces
   Closures
   

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6. Welcome to the Future
   Statics
   PDO
   Short Arrays
   Null Coalescing
   

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7. Legit Tools
   

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8. Legit Tools
   Built-in Server
   Unit Testing
   Composer
   

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9. Standards
   

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10. Standards
    PHP-FIG
    PSRs
    

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11. Community
    

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12. Community
    Twitter
    etc
    User Groups
    

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13. Welcome to
    the Future
    

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14. Great Scott!
    

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15. Exceptions
    

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17. Exceptions
    try {
    
    //your code goes here
    
    }
    
    catch (Exception $e) {
    
    die($e->getMessage());
    
    }
    

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18. Exceptions
    try {
    
    //your code goes here
    
    }
    
    catch (Exception $e) {
    
    die($e->getMessage());
    
    }
    

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19. Closures
    

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21. Closures
    Route::get(‘/', function(){
    
    
    
    return View::make(‘index');
    
    });
    

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22. Closures
    Route::get(‘/', function(){
    
    
    
    return View::make(‘index');
    
    });
    

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23. Namespaces
    

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25. Namespaces
    namespace Illuminate\Console;
    
    class Command
    
    {
    
    //…
    

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26. Namespaces
    use Illuminate\Console\Command;
    namespace Illuminate\Console;
    
    class Command
    
    {
    
    //…
    

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27. Namespaces
    use Illuminate\Console\Command;
    namespace Illuminate\Console;
    
    class Command
    
    {
    
    //…
    

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28. Statics
    

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30. Statics
    Class Route {
    
    public static function get() {
    
    //…
    
    }
    

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31. Statics
    Route::get();
    Class Route {
    
    public static function get() {
    
    //…
    
    }
    

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32. Statics
    Route::get();
    Class Route {
    
    public static function get() {
    
    //…
    
    }
    

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33. Statics
    NO $this
    
    
    
    $var = self::varAtDefinition;
    
    $var = static::varAtExec;
    

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34. Short Array
    Syntax
    

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36. Short Array Syntax
    $array = array(
    
    0 => ‘value1’,
    
    1 => ‘value2’,
    
    );
    

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37. Short Array Syntax
    $array = [
    
    0 => ‘value1’,
    
    1 => ‘value2’,
    
    ];
    

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38. Short Array Syntax
    $array = [
    
    0 => ‘value1’,
    
    1 => ‘value2’,
    
    ];
    

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39. Null
    Coalescing
    Operator
    

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40. Null Coalescing
    $val = $_GET['val'] ?? 'default';
    

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41. Null Coalescing
    $val = $_GET['val'] ?? 'default';
    

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42. Null Coalescing
    $val = isset($_GET[‘val’]) ?
    
    $_GET[‘val’] : 'default';
    

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43. Traits
    

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44. Traits
    // grouping without
    
    // strict inheritance
    
    trait baseUser {
    
    function getName() {
    
    return ‘Jon Snow’;
    
    }
    
    }
    

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45. Traits
    class adminUser {
    
    use baseUser;
    
    }
    

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46. Traits
    $adminUser = new adminUser;
    
    echo $adminUser->getName();
    
    //output = ‘Jon Snow’
    

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47. PDO
    

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49. PDO
    Cross System
    

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50. PDO
    Cross System
    MS SQL
    
    MySQL
    
    Oracle
    
    PostgreSQL
    
    SQLite
    CUBRID
    
    Firebird
    
    Informix
    
    ODBC & DB2
    
    4D
    

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51. PDO
    Cross System
    Safe Binding
    

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52. PDO
    $stmt = $db->prepare(‘
    
    SELECT * FROM users
    
    WHERE id=:id
    
    ’);
    
    $stmt->bindParam(‘:id’, $id);
    
    $stmt->execute();
    

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53. Legit Tools
    

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55. Built-in
    Web Server
    

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56. Built-in Server
    $ php -S localhost:8000
    
    PHP 5.4.0 Development Server started…
    Listening on localhost:8000
    
    Document root is /home/ben/htdocs
    
    Press Ctrl-C to quit
    

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57. Composer
    

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58. Another
    Package Manager!?
    

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59. Composer
    Sane Package
    
    Management
    

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60. Composer
    Autoloading
    

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61. Composer
    PEAR, ha!
    packagist.org
    

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62. Composer
    / composer.json
    
    {
    
    "require": {
    
    "stripe/stripe-php": "dev-master",
    
    "twilio/sdk": "dev-master"
    
    }
    
    }
    

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63. Composer
    $ php composer.phar update
    $ php composer.phar install
    

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64. Composer
    $client =
    
    new Services_Twilio($sid, $tkn);
    $client->account
    
    ->messages
    
    ->sendMessage(…)
    

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65. Unit Testing
    

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67. Unit Testing
    PHPUnit
    
    Behat
    
    Mink
    Selenium
    
    CodeCeption
    
    PHPSpec
    

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68. Unit Testing
    class ApiAuthTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
    
    public function testVerify() {
    
    $auth = new apiAuth();
    
    
    
    $this->assertTrue($auth->verify());
    

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69. Unit Testing
    class ApiAuthTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
    
    public function testVerify() {
    
    $auth = new apiAuth();
    
    
    
    $this->assertTrue($auth->verify());
    

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70. Unit Testing
    $ phpunit tests
    
    PHPUnit 3.3.17 by Sebastian Bergmann.
    
    Time: 0.01 seconds
    
    OK (1 tests, 1 assertions)
    

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71. Standards
    

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73. Standards
    PHP-FIG
    Framework
    
    Interop
    
    Group
    

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74. Standards
    Member Projects
    Zend
    
    Symfony
    
    CakePHP
    Laravel
    
    SugarCRM
    
    Drupal
    

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75. Standards
    PSRs
    PHP
    
    Standards
    
    Recommendation
    

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76. Standards
    PSRs
    Autoloading
    
    Interfaces
    
    Style Guides
    

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77. Standards
    PSRs
    PSR-4: Autoloading
    
    PSR-1: Basic Coding Standards
    
    PSR-2: Coding Style Guide
    
    PSR-7: HTTP Message Interface
    
    PSR-6: Caching Interface
    
    PSR-3: Logger Interface
    

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78. Standards
    PSR-4
    Auto-loading
    Replaces PSR-0
    Used by Composer
    

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79. Standards
    $client =
    
    new Services_Twilio($sid, $tkn);
    $client->account
    
    ->messages
    
    ->sendMessage(…)
    

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80. Standards
    PSR-1
    Basic Coding Styles
    Generally accepted
    Not very opinionated
    

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81. Standards
    PSR-1
    Basic Coding Styles
    camelCasing
    Opening Tags
    Namespacing
    Class Names
    UTF-8
    

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82. Standards
    PSR-2
    Coding Style Guide
    Greater Detail
    Opinionated
    

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83. Standards
    PSR-2
    Coding Style Guide
    Spacing
    Braces
    Lines
    Keywords
    Bools
    Control Struct
    

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84. Standards
    PSR-7
    HTTP Message Interface
    Requests Responses
    

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85. Community
    

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87. Community
    Open
    Inviting
    Genuine
    

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88. Community
    Twitter
    @phpc
    https://twitter.com/CalEvans
    /lists/phpeople
    Framework / Project
    

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89. Community
    Mailing List
    http://php.net/mailing-lists.php
    

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90. Community
    IRC
    Freenode
    #phpc
    ##php
    

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91. Community
    Blogs
    PlanetPHP
    php[architect]
    

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92. Community
    Podcasts
    PHP Roundtable
    PHP Townhall
    Voices of the ElePHPant
    

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93. Community
    Local User Group
    Nearest Large City
    Start It!
    

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94. Community
    Conferences
    Hallway Track
    Dinner
    Drinks
    Hotel Lobby
    

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95. Resources
    

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97. Resources
    PHP.net
    

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98. Resources
    Modern Frameworks
    Laravel
    
    Symfony2
    
    Fuel PHP
    SlimPHP 2
    
    Aura for PHP
    
    Silex
    

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99. Resources
    leanpub.com/
    
    phptherightway
    PHPtheRightWay.com
    

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100. Resources
     BuildSecurePHPapps.com
     Coupon Code:
     
     skiphp
     $10 off
     http://buildsecurephpapps.com/?coupon=skiphp
     

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101. Q/A TIME!
     Ben Edmunds
     @benedmunds
     http://benedmunds.com
     http://buildsecurephpapps.com/?coupon=skiphp
     https://joind.in/talk/aedbd
     

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