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 PHP
in the Enterprise

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 Michael Cheng
President / Founder,
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[email protected]

(Zend Certified Engineer)

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 What is PHP?
• PHP is a scripting language designed for producing
dynamic web pages.

• It has evolved to include a command line interface

capability and can be used in standalone graphical
applications.

• PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting

language that is especially suited for web
development and can be embedded into HTML.

• It generally runs on a web server.

• Current Version: 5.2.8 - www.php.net

Source: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php Ph.P

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 History
• PHP started in 1995: Rasmus Lerdorf

• 1997: Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans

began a complete rewrite of PHP to
make the language more powerful.

• PHP has come of age.

• Maturity in the language's syntax &

features - perfect balance of ease of use
and performance.

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 Building Blocks of WWW

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 Easy to Learn & Code

Its Free to Use!

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 Its Everywhere!

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 The Thinking Man

Start Thinking...
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 Iron Thinking

Be Iron Man? Or Sit Pretty?

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 Let’s Start with a Smile.

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 One of the Greatest Minds

2
E=MC

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 Some of the Possibilities...

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 Time To Move Up...

Let’s Build Skyscrapers Ph.P

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 Benefits
• Easy to pick-up. Syntax close to C.

• Motto: “Get Stuff Done Now”.

• Simplicity & Versatility.

• Interpreted not compiled.

• Just upload and its done!

• Support rapid & agile development.

• Ubiquity of web servers that supports PHP.

• Lower TCO.

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 Syntax

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 SOAP Client
try
{
$client = new SoapClient(’http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl’);
$results = $client->doGoogleSearch($key, $query, 0, 10, FALSE, ’’,
FALSE, ’’, ’’, ’’);
foreach ($results->resultElements as $result)
{
echo ’<a href="’ . htmlentities($result->URL) . ’">’;
echo htmlentities($result->title, ENT_COMPAT, ’UTF-8’);
echo ’</a><br/>’;
}
}
catch (SoapFault $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}

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 10 Point Plan:
PHP in the Enterprise
How to successful roll-out PHP in your company.

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 10-Point Plan
• The Team • Design Patterns
• Requirements • Testing
• Architecture • Optimization
• Tools • Deployment
• Foundation • Operations
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 1. The Team
• Get a team together.

• Build up knowledge on PHP.

• OOP in PHP.

• Extensions available.

• Consider PHP Certification to fast-track your

learning process.

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 2. Requirements
• Gather requirements.

• What does the customer want?

• What will visitors want?

• What does the customer really need?

• Functional design.

• Application flow diagrams

• Wire frames.

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 3. Architecture
• Don’t be so Step 3 jump
eager to - Architecture
into coding.

• Data modeling.
Technical Design
• • Modeling
Class diagrams.
• Class Diagrams
• • ER Diagramsdiagram.
Collaboration (data model)
• Collaboration Diagrams
• Use •cases.
Use Cases etc.
•
•
Tools:
High Level Architectures
• UML
•
• Design Patterns
Whiteboards

• SOA

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 4. Tools
• The right tools help you get productive fast.
Step 4 - Tools
• Development Tools:
Development:
• Eclipse• PDT
Eclipse/ PDT
PHPClipse

• •
Komodo
Zend Studio
• PhpEd
• • Vim
Zend Studio
• Komodo
• Full IDE or Text Editor?
IDE’s versus Editors
• • Debugging
Debugging / Profiling
& Profiling
• Syntax Check
• Syntax•checking
Cross-Referencing / Navigation

• Cross Referencing / Navigation

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 4. Tools
• Version Control

• Subversion

• CVS

• Documentation Tools

• PHP Documentor (http://phpdoc.org)

• PHPXRef (http://phpxref.sourceforge.net)

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 5. Foundation
• Good foundation will help in making your code
more maintainable and scalable.

• SOP & Best Practices

• Use a framework

• Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com)

• CakePHP (http://cakephp.org)

• Symfony (http://www.symfony-project.org)

• Code Ignitor (http://codeigniter.com/)

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 6. Design Patterns
• Best practice way of solving a particular problem.

• Patterns:

• Model-View-Controller

• Factory

• Singleton

• Registry

• Decorator

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 7. Testing
• Various types of testing:

• Developer testing

• Functional testing

• Environment testing

• Performance testing

• Usability testing

• Solution: Unit Tests

• Automated testing after each change

• Prevents regressions
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 7. Testing
• Testing for PHP applications:

• PHPUnit http://www.phpunit.de/

• SimpleTest http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php

• Continuous Integration:

• CruiseControl http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/

• phpUnderControl http://www.phpundercontrol.org/

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 8. Optimization
• Accelerators for PHP:

• APC http://pecl.php.net/package/APC

• eAccelerator http://eaccelerator.net/

• Zend Platform http://www.zend.com/products/

zend_platform

• PHP Caching solutions:

• Zend_Cache http://framework.zend.com

• Zend Platform http://www.zend.com/products/

zend_platform

• Memcached http://danga.com/memcached/
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 9. Deployment
• Lifecycle:

• Develop

• Test

• Deploy to acceptance test environment

• Deploy to production server

• Use Subversion or Capistrano

• Remember the database

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 9. Deployment
• Basic server installation.

Linux Windows
Apache IIS
Database

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 10. Operations
• Monitoring Performance

• Logs

• Debugging

• A ‘root cause’ & analysis tool

• Context Capture

• Change management:

• Ticket system

• Stick to your deployment - use the DRP

• DON'T TOUCH THE LIVE ENVIRONMENT.

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 10-Point Plan
• The Team • Design Patterns
• Requirements • Testing
• Architecture • Optimization
• Tools • Deployment
• Foundation • Operations

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 There’s More...
• Planning

• Development methodology (Waterfall / Agile)

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Coding best practices

• Security

• Implementation

• Good luck!

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 About Michael
• Web development business for 10+ years.

• Currently running a small web development &

consulting business.

• Started Singapore PHP User Group in 2006

• Regular monthly meetups since November 2007

(average turn out of 50 members); 480+ members
to date.

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 History
• 2nd Facebook Developer Garage at Microsoft Singapore
Auditorium (5 March 2008).

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 History
• BarCamp II - Maps & Mobile Unconference (21 May 2008).

Wed, 21 May 2008 NUS Extension, Park Mall

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 The Philosophy in
Programming Society
• Registered as Ph.P Society in July 2008.

• Endorsed By:

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 Upcoming Events
• PHP Meetup (26 Feb - Oracle Singapore)

• Zend-PHP Certification Course (7 March)

• Enrichment Workshops (March 2009)

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 Workshops
• Intro to PHP CMSs

• PHP Frameworks: A Primer

• Drupal, WordPress, Joomla Extensions Development

• Web 2.0 Mastery Foundation Course

• Building Rich Internet Apps: Javascript Frameworks

• Visit http://www.php.org.sg for more details.

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 Michael Cheng
[email protected]

http://www.php.com.sg
http://www.php.org.sg
http://facebook.php.org.sg

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