Rapid Prototyping with PHP

The world of TDD, BDD and frameworks in PHP-land

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1. Rapid Prototyping with PHP The world of TDD, BDD and frameworks in PHP-land 1 Friday, 25 January, 13
2. Michael Cheng Senior Software Engineer, mig33 http://twitter.com/coderkungfu http://github.com/miccheng 2 Friday, 25 January, 13
3. Challenges of Rapid Prototyping • Build once and run everywhere • Responsive web apps • Mobile apps • Use same backend - usually a REST service • Something that PHP is particularly good at 3 Friday, 25 January, 13
4. Phases 1. HTML mockups • eg. Backbone JS, Angular JS 2. Stub web services • Return dummy payload. 3. Final working web services 4 Friday, 25 January, 13
5. Doing PHP right • Use a framework • Use Composer libraries for lower level functionalities (don't reinvent the wheel) • Keep it clean. Doesn't need to scale immediately. • Adhere to coding standards - PSR-0, 1, 2 • Practice TDD, BDD (if you can) 5 Friday, 25 January, 13
6. Full-Stack Frameworks • CakePHP (http://www.cakephp.org) • Lithium (http://lithify.me/) • CodeIgniter (http://www.codeigniter.com) • Kohana, FuelPHP • Symfony (http://symfony.com/) • SilverStripe (http://www.silverstripe.org/) 6 Friday, 25 January, 13
7. REST Frameworks • Silex (http://silex.sensiolabs.org/) • Restler (http://luracast.com/products/restler/) • Recess (http://www.recessframework.org/) 7 Friday, 25 January, 13
8. TDD/BDD • PHPUnit (http://phpunit.de) • Behat (http://behat.org/) • PHPSpec http://www.phpspec.net/ 8 Friday, 25 January, 13
9. Composer http://getcomposer.org http://packagist.org General Purpose Libraries, frameworks, etc. 9 Friday, 25 January, 13
10. Common Standards • PHP Framework Interop Group (http://www.php-fig.org/) • PSR-0: Autoloading Standard • PSR-1: Basic Coding Standard • PSR-2: Coding Style Guide • PSR-3: Logger Interface 10 Friday, 25 January, 13
11. Hosting PHP • Its everywhere! • AppFog (http://appfog.com) • Windows Azure (http://windowsazure.com) 11 Friday, 25 January, 13
12. PHP the Right Way • http://www.phptherightway.com/ 12 Friday, 25 January, 13
13. Join Us! • Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ sghypertextpreprocessors/) • Download (http://php.net, http://windows.php.net) 13 Friday, 25 January, 13