This is a half day tutorial which we try to tailor to what people want to hear about on the day. We'll get into the nitty gritty of writing clean, fast, secure code.

Registration for this year's event is still open and there'll be other PHP-related talks including Christian Wenz's look at web services and Chris Shiflett's "Writing Secure Web Applications with PHP".

This year's event will include several speakers on PHP-related topics, including Theo Schlossnagle on "Advanced Production Troubleshooting Techniques" and Chris Shiflett covering his usual - "Essential PHP Security".

The conference is June 26th through 30th in Dublin, Ireland and prices start (including the Early Bird while it lasts) start at around 570 Euro for full conference access. Check out complete prices here.

The conference will be from June 26th through the 30th in Dublin, Ireland. Registering before May 29th will get you an early bird discount of about 50-60 Euro. After that, prices start at 680 Euro and go up. You can get complete details on the conference and signup online at their site.

Despite the heavy emphasis on Java at this year's ApacheCon, I still enjoyed the conference and learned a lot.

I got to see Rasmus Lerdorf's talk, and you can also view his slides online: Large-Scale PHP. Rasmus actually covered many topics, including Ajax, Flickr, and Yahoo Maps. It felt like he was just having fun and talking about the cool things he's been playing with recently. You can see more of his toys on his toys page, which is the closest thing he has to a blog.

He also mentions some of the other "standard presenters" and their presentations, like:

• Andrei Zmievski on Unicode
• Adam Trachtenburg on Web Services
• Christian Wenz on Web Application Security

I got back from jApacheCon last night. I like the show, but the ASF has certainly shifted over the years from programs written in C (httpd, mod_perl, PHP) to programs written in Java (Ant, Axis, Beehive, Cocoon, Geronimo, Jakarta, Struts, etc.). This has caused the show to have an increasingly large amount of Java content.

This has caused the PHP crowd to dub ApacheCon with new names. Chris prefers JApacheCon; Andrei likes JAvacheCon; I want either ApacheCon4J or jApacheCon. However, Day 3 was a nice mix of PHP, Ruby, and Michael's httpd talks.

His talk, "Consuming Web Services Using PHP 5" and was well recieved by the conference-goers. It looks briefly at REST and SOAP, with a few demos of each and a progression on the SOAP side ending up with his eBay Motors Google Maps mashup. You can get the slides here (PDF).]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:47:37 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4496 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4496 Chris Shiflett's blog today, there's his update from this year's ApacheCon (or, as he calls it, "JApacheCon" for all the Java that's "infested it"). The post talks about his and Geoff Young's tutorial - Power PHP Testing.

On Sunday, Geoff Young and I gave our tutorial, Power PHP Testing, which went really well. Most of the attendees had PHP experience and no testing experience, so it was a perfect fit.

We covered testing theory as well as some practical examples using phpt, Simple-Test, PHPUnit, and (of course) Apache-Test. We have tarballs for each framework that provide everything you need (I'll link to these in another post), including a Makefile so that make test runs your test suite.

In the talk, they tried to make each framework "shine", pointing out the highlights of each as a standalone method - not in comparison to the others. He also mentions how each was presented and what the largest difference between them is...]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:47:54 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4307 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4307 Chris Shiflett's blog today, there's a new post about a talk with will (hopefully) be given at this year's ApacheCon by Chris and Geoff Young - a PHP testing tutorial.

Admit it - deep down inside, you know you should be testing your PHP applications. With all of the different PHP test environments and the daunting documentation, sometimes it is difficult to know where to start. This tutorial will help. The first step in testing is deciding what to test, so we will begin by offering a very simple (but not contrived) PHP application with identifying elements that lend themselves to testing - both unit tests and functional tests. Next, we will write some real tests using several of the existing PHP testing frameworks, including PHPUnit, Simple Test, phpt, and Apache-Test.

Chris also mentions some of the packages that are out there to perform the testing with - from the ever-popular PHPUnit to Apache-Test and plenty of documentation in between...]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:32:45 -0600