Taking PHP to the Next Level

The state of the PHP world has been most precarious over the past few years and many developers moved over to other languages and other technologies because PHP was lacking something that other emerging techs were providing.

With the rise of cloud computing, cutting edge frameworks and amazing platforms, PHP can be sexy again. This talk takes you on a tour of the history and future of PHP.

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1. What’s next?
   Taking PHP to the next level
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2. You! You!
   Who are you? What do you do?
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3. Landscape
   An overview of the PHP world
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4. From the museum
   ... up to here today
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5. ~83 000
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6. ~700 000
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7. ~73 799 102
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8. Namespaces\\
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9. Namespaces!!
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10. Closures & λ's
    (lambdas)
    Just like javascript...
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11. $lambda = function() { ... }
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12. $foo = ‘bar’;
    $cls = function() use ($foo) {
    return $foo;
    };
    echo $cls();
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13. $f = function() { ... }
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14. LSB
    GC
    Functors
    Phar
    $Dynamic::$Statics
    SPL
    Short Ternaries (?:)
    __DIR__
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15. LSB
    GC
    Functors
    Phar
    $Dynamic::$Statics
    SPL
    Short Ternaries (?:)
    __DIR__
    MySQLnd
    DateTime
    FPM
    NOWDOCS
    ICU
    Collator
    ext/intl
    sqlite3
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16. Get it?
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17. 5.4
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18. array('foo' => 'bar')
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19. ['foo' => 'bar']
    Short Syntax for arrays!
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20. $obj->method($var)[2];
    Function Array Dereferencing
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21. Traits
    Effective code re-use
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23. SessionHandler
    class VendorSession extends SessionHandler {}
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24. A lot more.
    PHP 5.4 isn’t only traits and arrays
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25. Indirect Method Calls
    $func = array(‘Foo’, ‘bar’);
    $func();
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26. Member Access
    Upon Instantiation
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27. $obj = (new Foo)->bar();
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28. Support this!
    Added $this closure support.
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29. The future is bright
    Not only features
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30. Release Process
    Making it easier to contribute
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31. GIT!!!
    http://git.php.net/
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32. Built-in Webserver?
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33. What does it all
    mean?
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34. Stronger Engineering
    PHP isn’t only for hacking spider scripts
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35. Better Tools
    PHP a mature language
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36. PHPUnit
    Advanced Unit-Testing
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37. XDebug
    10 years! Congrats!
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39. CodeSniffer
    Make your code comply!
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40. Getting work done
    Frameworks old and new
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41. Symfony
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43. A bunch of DICs
    Don’t call me. I’ll call you.
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44. Zend Framework
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46. Lithium
    (li3)
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47. Even Agavi...
    Take a look seriously.
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48. Silex
    The largest micro-framework.
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49. Composer
    A New Package Manager
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50. External Projects
    Really worth mentioning.
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53. Node.js
    Don’t worry it doesn’t hurt.
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54. Nodephp.org
    Taking the JS out of Node.js
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55. On the other hand.
    What is changing?
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56. LAMP?
    Yesterday’s problems
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57. LNNP?
    Today’s and Tomorrow’s problems
    learning from yesterday’s mistakes.
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58. L: Linux
    N: Nginx
    N: (N) NoSQL Solutions
    P: PHP-FPM
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59. Rasmus once said
    When the world becomes standard,
    I will start caring about standards.
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60. The FIG
    The PHP Framework Interoperability Group
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61. Where does
    that leave us?
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62. Evolution
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63. Platforms
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64. Cloud...
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65. Deploying
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66. Quality Control
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68. Focus
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69. Adapted (ing)
    to evolving needs.
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70. Modern
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71. Share Nothing
    Selfish systems
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72. A new concept
    No more managing.
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73. Shiny Objects
    We all want some!
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74. “Desire and hope will push us toward the future”
    - Michel De Montaigne
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75. The David Theory
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76. “Anything that can be used,
    should be tried”
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77. That’s PaaS
    Make me succeed, but allow me to fail fast.
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78. Redis
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79. MongoDB
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80. CouchDB
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81. Riak
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82. CloudFlare
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83. Ruby? :-O
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84. Python? :o
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85. Let us reflect.
    About Technology and Communities
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86. God Complex
    David’s Stockholm Syndrome
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87. “All War is Deception”
    —Sun Tzu
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88. Users are worth
    more than technology
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89. Next time
    Think before bitching.
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90. A tip
    Please consider the following.
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91. Other Techs
    There is a world out there.
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92. Polyglotism
    It is not an illness.
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93. Different Worlds
    But so similar.
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94. Community
    Contributing to something
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95. Free Beer and Stuff?
    Tweet @engineyard
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