Outside The Bubble

What happened outside of the WordPress community in the PHP community at large

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1. Outside The Bubble
   A WordCamp talk by Tom J Nowell
   

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2. Who Am I?
   

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3. Defining The Bubble
   

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4. What's Happening Inside?
   

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5. What Happened Outside?
   

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6. PHP 5.3, 5.4, & 5.5
   

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7. Massive Performance Increases
   PHP 5.3 significantly faster than 5.2
   PHP 5.4 up to 2x as fast in some benchmarks
   No code changes required
   

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8. PSR-0 PSR-1 and PSR-2
   Standards for PHP code:
   ● Standard code style
   ● Standard auto loaders & class conventions
   ● Standard logger interfaces
   ● Amongst others..
   

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9. Namespaces
   Lambdas
   Closures
   Traits
   Generators
   Queues DoubleLinkedLists Heaps Stacks etc
   and more
   

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10. Namespaces
    

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11. Lambdas & Closures
    // Lambdas
    add_action( 'the_content', function( $content ){
    return $content.'Final Note';
    });
    // Closures
    $note = 'Final Note';
    add_action( 'the_content', function($content) use($note) {
    return $content.$note;
    });
    // anonymous functions
    $func = function( $content ) { return $content.'the end';
    };
    add_action( 'the_content', $func );
    

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12. Traits
    Requires PHP 5.4
    

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13. Speaking of Singletons...
    

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14. Generators
    

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15. Queues, Stacks, Sets,
    PriorityQueues, Heaps & other SPL
    containers
    Special containers with performance and
    memory advantages over standard arrays
    

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17. MySQL Removed
    

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18. Replaced by PDO, MySQLi & ORMs
    e.g. Doctrine, Idiorm etc
    WordPress hasn't moved to support these and
    breaks in PHP 5.5
    

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19. QA Tools
    

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20. PHPLOC
    

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21. PHP CodeSniffer
    Prevent common semantic errors, and highlight
    coding standards violations
    

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22. PHP Mess Detector
    Takes a given PHP source code base and look
    for several potential problems within that
    source. These problems can be things like:
    ● Possible bugs
    ● Suboptimal code
    ● Overcomplicated expressions
    ● Unused parameters, methods, properties
    

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23. SCheck & Facebook PHP tools
    ● Catch common mistakes such as:
    function add_hash( $color ) {
    return '#'.$colour;
    }
    addhash(); // missing '_'
    ● Generate databases describing your code structure for analysis
    ● View codebases in visual tools with Google Maps style panning and zoom,
    and search for functions and objects
    

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24. phantm
    Static analyser to check type in PHP code
    amongst other things
    $dict = array();
    $dict['en'] = array();
    $dict['en']['fr'] = 'Bonjour';
    $dict['en']['de'] = 'Hallo';
    $dist['en']['it'] = 'Ciao';
    $dict['en']['sp'] = 'Hola';
    :7 Notice: Type mismatch: expected: Array[...], found: Top
    $dist['en']['it'] = 'Ciao';
    

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25. Invasion of the MVC Frameworks
    

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29. Zend Framework
    

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33. Goutte
    A web client/scraping library
    require_once '/path/to/goutte.phar';
    use Goutte\Client;
    $client = new Client();
    $crawler = $client->request(
    'GET',
    'http://www.symfony-project.org/'
    );
    $link = $crawler->selectLink('Plugins')->link();
    $crawler = $client->click($link);
    $nodes = $crawler->filter('.error_list');
    if ($nodes->count()){
    die(sprintf("Authentication error: %s\n", $nodes->text()));
    }
    

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34. Underscore.php
    

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35. Assetic
    Asset management on steroids
    ● Handles all assets,
    js/css/images/less/sass/etc
    ● Generic filter system for
    compilation/compression/URL handling
    amongst other things
    ● Handles Caching & filesystem searches
    

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36. Klein
    Superfast URL Router Library
    require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
    $klein = new \Klein\Klein();
    $klein->respond('GET', '/hello-world', function () {
    return 'Hello World!';
    });
    $klein->dispatch();
    

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37. Dispatch
    A PHP 5.3 Micro framework
    require('../src/dispatch.php');
    config('site.router', 'index.php');
    get('/users', function () {
    echo "listing users...";
    });
    // get route for index
    get('/index', function () {
    echo "hello, world!\n";
    });
    

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38. Twig
    Super fast templating engine
    
    
    
    My Webpage
    
    
    
    {% for item in navigation %}
    {{ item.caption }}
    {% endfor %}
    
    My Webpage
    {{ a_variable }}
    
    
    

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39. Places To Find Out More
    PHPNW
    October, Manchester
    PHPUK
    February, London
    PHPNE
    April, Newcastle
    

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40. Questions?
    Tom J Nowell
    @tarendai
    contact@tomjn.com
    www.tomjn.com
    

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