Taming the Untestable Beast

Sebastian Bergmann thePHP.cc Stefan Priebsch thePHP.cc

Call it what you will: Brownfield Project, Big Ball of Mud or just legacy code. As developers we rarely find ourselves in a Greenfield Project without any constraints that are imposed by prior work of less than optimal quality. In this workshop you will learn see that architecture and testability are related and how to turn bad code into good, testable code. No question goes unanswered when we pull up an editor and explain best practices while we refactor and unit test an MVC application live.

Unit testing after Zend Framework 1.8

Michelangelo van Dam In2IT

With the release of Zend Framework 1.8 lots of things changed internally, and so changed the way to test your applications. My presentation will go in depth in the new unit testing features and will give examples to test your application on several levels like database tables, web services, library components and controllers.

Flex + Flickr = Fleckr?

Keith Casey Blue Parabola, LLC

It’s one thing to bring samples of code to show off and share. It’s something else entirely to write them live in front of a group. Come to this code-along and we’ll break out of the browser to get a crash course in Flex development and interact with the Flickr API. We’ll learn how to authenticate, upload images, add tags, and set privacy for single or a group of photos. === Outline === * Introduction * Install Flex Builder 4 * Initial Setup Wizard ** Command/button overview ** Platform differences * Basic Functionality ** Get image list (rss feed) ** Authenticate ** Upload an Image * Security Model * Wrapup

Introducing Zend Framework 2.0

Matthew Weier O'Phinney Zend Technologies

Zend Framework has grown tremendously since the first public preview release in March 2006. Originally a slim, MVC framework with a number of standalone components, it has grown to a codebase more than 2M lines of code. Work now turns to version 2, with goals of increased simplicity and advanced PHP 5.3 usage.

Modeling Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

Ralph Schindler Zend Technologies Inc.

In the MVC triad, the M, or The Model, typically represents the core of your business. As many opinions as you have about how your business is constructed and run, there are as many opinions on how application models are crafted, utilized and maintained. In this tutorial we'll examine the current landscape modeling techniques from how to best create Models as well as the best practice techniques on persisting data. Items and topics will range from Service Layers, Mappers and Entities to various database persistence methods, testability and maintainability of your Model code. This tutorial will be framework agnostic in opinion, but will look at various implementations in both Plain Old PHP as well as in popular projects including Zend Framework, Symfony, Doctrine, and Lithium.

Cloudy with a Chance of PHP

Josh Holmes Microsoft Eli White HiiDef Travis Swicegood

Over the past few years, Cloud hosting has rocketed into the main stream buzzword mania. The promise of on demand computing resources is an exciting and disruptive change in the IT world. Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace are three of the leading providers in the PHP space. The support and offerings from each are dramatically different while still holding to the principle of on demand computing resources. The awesome part is that with the Zend’s Simple Cloud API breaks down the learning curve and offers a lot of freedom in your cloud application code. In half day tutorial, cloud computing experts Josh Holmes, Travis Swicegood and Eli White will dive into the promises and realities of cloud computing and what the leading vendors offer.

Amazon Cloud Services with Zend Framework

Shahar Evron Zend Technologies

Combining the ever-growing Cloud Computing services offered by Amazon with the use-at-will design and simplicity of Zend Framework can provide a powerful, flexible and affordable platform for PHP apps based partially or fully on Cloud infrastructure. This talk will explore some of the different Amazon Cloud services and will show, through code samples, how to tap into them using Zend Framework.