I *heart* PHP and...

A quick safari through some of the different forms of PHP development. This month, we didn't dig deep into any one thing, but hopefully peaked an interest or two. See something you like? Prepare a lightning talk for your local PHP User Group! (Presented to Kansas City's PHP User Group - kcpug.org)

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1. I PHP and...
   a safari through a few forms of PHP
   KC PHP User Group
   October 2nd, 2013
   

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2. Why this talk?
   ● Was requested ;-)
   ● Very easy for devs to specialize / isolate
   ● In PHP, there are SO MANY ways to do it
   ● See something interesting? Do a talk on it!
   

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3. This is NOT ...
   ● WordPress vs. Drupal
   ● Zend Framework vs. Symfony
   ● PHP vs. Ruby, Node.js, Scala, JS
   

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4. WordPress
   User-friendly CMS
   Blogs
   Images
   Custom Post Types
   Massive Themes and Plugin Community
   Great Local User group / Community
   http://codex.wordpress.org/
   

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5. For Developers
   HUGE collection of core functions
   

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6. For Developers
   Templates may be completely standalone or
   have “children” overriding parts
   of the parent
   Shortcodes offer “commands” that
   users can add to their content
   

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7. For Developers
   Features are hooked in with Filters and Actions
   Templates may be completely standalone or
   have “children” overriding parts
   of the parent
   Shortcodes offer “commands” that
   users can add to their content
   

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8. Drupal
   Becoming Application Framework
   Feature-rich CMS built on top
   Blocks, Content Types, Menus, Taxonomy
   Currently undergoing GREAT changes
   Symfony / Drupal 8
   Also, amazing theme, module community
   Active Local User Group Community
   

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9. For Developers
   Command line tools - Drush
   Extensive use of Hooks and Callbacks
   Everything is a module - AND LOTS of them
   API is also very function based
   

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10. For Developers
    Great / Extensive Documentation
    Personaly love the Site Building Guide
    

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11. Ideas so far for future talks?
    Your favorite CMS plugins
    Writing a plugin in your favorite CMS
    Adding a Google map of your user’s cities?
    Your favorite CMS hosting provider and why
    Your CMS platform not represented? Show us!
    

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12. Full Stack Frameworks
    CakePHP
    FuelPHP
    Laravel 4
    Symfony 2
    Zend Framework 2
    Many, Many, Many more
    

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13. Micro Frameworks
    Silex - MVC on Symfony components
    Slim - Very stable, light, MVC
    Medoo - Tiny database framework
    For more ideas: MicroPHP Manifesto
    http://microphp.org/
    

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14. Framework talks are hard
    Frameworks usually have large startup costs
    People may get a little territorial
    Very difficult to show enough in 40 min
    Dev’s can’t just convert all their other projects
    

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15. Let’s go even smaller
    

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16. Composer / Packagist
    {
    "require": {
    "monolog/monolog": "1.0.*"
    }
    }
    $ php composer.phar install
    $ composer update
    $ composer create-project slim/slim-skeleton [my-app-name]
    Or, if you are using a shell script...
    

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19. Seriously...tons of great finds in here
    

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20. Specialty Development
    Phalcon - The PHP framework written in C
    HHVM / HipHop for PHP - Facebook’s VM
    Google App Engine for PHP
    

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21. QA Tools
    We did a talk on phpqatools.org and Jenkins
    But what about Behavioral Testing with Behat?
    Creating a simple Unit Testing playground
    with composer and phpunit
    How to get practice with Unit Testing or TDD?
    

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22. I PHP and Kansas City
    

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23. I PHP and Kansas City
    What are YOU doing with PHP in Kansas City?
    ● A new site or application you want to
    show off?
    ● A new tool you wrote that makes
    things easier.
    ● Big or Small
    we all learn something when you present
    

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24. Kansas City’s PHP User Group
    @dan_holmes
    kcpug.org
    meetup.com/kcphpug
    

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