Good ol' PHP - Speaker Deck

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Good ol’PHP @rapzo - may 18th - 2016 A tale on how to turn hate into love

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Rui Lima front-end developer @blippt Jack of all trades @exoticosembraga @rapzo github.com/rapzo @rapzo - may 18th - 2016

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PHP SUCKS!!1

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PHP stands for… Personal Home Page……… We came a loooong way Now it’s PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor... @rapzo - may 18th - 2016

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Back in the later 1990s and early 2000 php was the lingua franca for web development But it was bugged as hell @rapzo - may 18th - 2016

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php 5.3 came out and php-fig was created!! @rapzo - may 18th - 2016 2009

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psr-1 coding standards (who gives a damn) psr-2 code style (srsly?!?!) psr-3 LoggerInterface psr-4 ex-psr-0, the autoloading standard psr-6 CacheInterface (alright…) psr-7 http message interface (aleluia!!) @rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php-fig

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First community adopted package manager for PHP. Like many others, relies on github to solve its dependencies @rapzo - may 18th - 2016 composer

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 composer packagist is your friend!

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Yeah, this is like, what every other language already has...

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 language features from php 5.3 onwards… the others are rubbish anyways... 5.3 the biggest leap 5.4 array shorthands, traits and a webserver! 5.5 generators (i yield!) and expressions in primitives 5.6 constant expressions, …$params notation 5.7 when everybody went bananas! long wait.... 7.0 major shift

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 namespaces for logically code separation late static binding for static inheritance closures don’t we just love to provide functions as arguments! nowdoc & heredoc output buffered content constants immutable data FTW! shorthand ternary ?: ‘hello’; dynamic access to static $a::$b \m/

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 namespaces for logically code separation

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 late static binding for static inheritance

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 closures don’t we just love to provide functions as arguments!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 nowdoc & heredoc output buffered content

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 constants immutable data FTW!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 shorthand ternary ?: ‘hello’;

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.3 dynamic access to static $a::$b \m/

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 traits for class decoration array short syntax no more array(‘a’ => ‘b’) function array deref hello()[0] closures can have a scope short open tags for echoing always available instantiating access (new ABC)->a()->b()->c() Class::{expressions} awesome! binary is now available session track for upload hooray progress bars webserver aleluia!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 traits for class decoration

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 array short syntax no more array(‘a’ => ‘b’)

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 function array deref hello()[0]

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 closures can have a scope

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 short open tags for echoing always available

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 instantiating access (new ABC)->a()->b()->c()

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 Class::{expressions} awesome!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 binary is now available

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 session track for upload hooray progress bars

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.4 webserver aleluia!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 generators multiple results from the same function finally who haven’t discard an exception before primitives accept functions such as foreach empty() accepts expressions, like functions dereferencing for arrays and strings ::class for dynamic class name access OPcache for precompiled code storage

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 generators multiple results from the same function

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 finally who haven’t discard an exception before

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 primitives accept functions such as foreach

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 empty() accepts expressions, like functions

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 dereferencing for arrays and strings

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 ::class for dynamic class name access

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.5 OPcache for precompiled code storage

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 const expressions sometimes constants are not just constants const arrays heheh told ya! ... Rest params via array! Awesome! ...$params and spreading exponentiation right to left, never forget! use syntax for functions and constants via namespaces Class::__debugInfo for class var_dump

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 const expressions sometimes constants are not just constants

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 const arrays heheh told ya!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 ... Rest params via array! Awesome!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 ...$params and spreading

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 exponentiation right to left, never forget!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 use syntax for functions and constants via namespaces

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 5.6 Class::__debugInfo for class var_dump

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 types for function arguments more types for return declarations null or bust isset($a) ? $a : ‘a’ = $a ?? ‘a’ spaceship op echo -1 <=> 1 good ol’define for arrays anonymous classes fire and forget! Closure::call() hello late closure calls assert() expectations, finally! use just got javascript’d use \some\{A,B,C}

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 types for function arguments

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 more types for return declarations

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 null or bust isset($a) ? $a : ‘a’ = $a = $a ?? ‘a’

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 spaceship op echo -1 <=> 1

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 good ol’define for arrays

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 anonymous classes fire and forget!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 Closure::call() hello late closure calls

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 assert() expectations, finally!

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 php 7.0 use just got javascript’d use \some\{A,B,C}

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 HHVM php got sideways before announcing the 6th version, which made facebook develop its own virtual machine HHVM is a JIT compiler to bytecode and virtual machine that runs that bytecode

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 HHVM HHVM is not a replacement for php although it has a new language, strong typed, called Hack HHVM supports php and is 99,9% with the 7th version

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 HHVM and PHP In terms of performance, they are both fast In terms of deployment, HHVM is metal greedy

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@rapzo - may 18th - 2016 Next time... The real talk about php apps, laravel, lumen and building something!