Taking PHP to the Next Level

The state of the PHP world has been most precarious over the past few years and many developers moved over to other languages and other technologies because PHP was lacking something that other emerging techs were providing.

With the rise of cloud computing, cutting edge frameworks and amazing platforms, PHP can be sexy again. This talk takes you on a tour of the history and future of PHP.

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1. What’s next? Taking PHP to the next level @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
2. You! You! Who are you? What do you do? @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
3. Landscape An overview of the PHP world @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
4. From the museum ... up to here today @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
5. ~83 000 @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
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8. Namespaces\\ @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
9. Namespaces!! @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
10. Closures & λ's (lambdas) Just like javascript... @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
11. $lambda = function() { ... } @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
12. $foo = ‘bar’; $cls = function() use ($foo) { return $foo; }; echo $cls(); @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
13. $f = function() { ... } @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
14. LSB GC Functors Phar $Dynamic::$Statics SPL Short Ternaries (?:) __DIR__ @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
15. LSB GC Functors Phar $Dynamic::$Statics SPL Short Ternaries (?:) __DIR__ MySQLnd DateTime FPM NOWDOCS ICU Collator ext/intl sqlite3 @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
16. Get it? @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
17. 5.4 @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
18. array('foo' => 'bar') @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
19. ['foo' => 'bar'] Short Syntax for arrays! @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
20. $obj->method($var)[2]; Function Array Dereferencing @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
21. Traits Effective code re-use @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
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23. SessionHandler class VendorSession extends SessionHandler {} @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
24. A lot more. PHP 5.4 isn’t only traits and arrays @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
25. Indirect Method Calls $func = array(‘Foo’, ‘bar’); $func(); @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
26. Member Access Upon Instantiation @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
27. $obj = (new Foo)->bar(); @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
28. Support this! Added $this closure support. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
29. The future is bright Not only features @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
30. Release Process Making it easier to contribute @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
31. GIT!!! http://git.php.net/ @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
32. Built-in Webserver? @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
33. What does it all mean? @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
34. Stronger Engineering PHP isn’t only for hacking spider scripts @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
35. Better Tools PHP a mature language @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
36. PHPUnit Advanced Unit-Testing @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
37. XDebug 10 years! Congrats! @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
38. Sunday 20 May 12
39. CodeSniffer Make your code comply! @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
40. Getting work done Frameworks old and new @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
41. Symfony @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
42. Sunday 20 May 12
43. A bunch of DICs Don’t call me. I’ll call you. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
44. Zend Framework @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
45. Sunday 20 May 12
46. Lithium (li3) @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
47. Even Agavi... Take a look seriously. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
48. Silex The largest micro-framework. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
49. Composer A New Package Manager @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
50. External Projects Really worth mentioning. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
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53. Node.js Don’t worry it doesn’t hurt. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
54. Nodephp.org Taking the JS out of Node.js @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
55. On the other hand. What is changing? @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
56. LAMP? Yesterday’s problems @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
57. LNNP? Today’s and Tomorrow’s problems learning from yesterday’s mistakes. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
58. L: Linux N: Nginx N: (N) NoSQL Solutions P: PHP-FPM @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
59. Rasmus once said When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
60. The FIG The PHP Framework Interoperability Group @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
61. Where does that leave us? @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
62. Evolution @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
63. Platforms @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
64. Cloud... @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
65. Deploying @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
66. Quality Control @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
67. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
68. Focus @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
69. Adapted (ing) to evolving needs. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
70. Modern @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
71. Share Nothing Selfish systems @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
72. A new concept No more managing. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
73. Shiny Objects We all want some! @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
74. “Desire and hope will push us toward the future” - Michel De Montaigne Sunday 20 May 12
75. The David Theory @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
76. “Anything that can be used, should be tried” @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
77. That’s PaaS Make me succeed, but allow me to fail fast. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
78. Redis @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
79. MongoDB @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
80. CouchDB @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
81. Riak @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
82. CloudFlare @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
83. Ruby? :-O @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
84. Python? :o @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
85. Let us reflect. About Technology and Communities @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
86. God Complex David’s Stockholm Syndrome @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
87. “All War is Deception” —Sun Tzu @davidcoallier — Italy — phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
88. Users are worth more than technology @davidcoallier — Italy — phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
89. Next time Think before bitching. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
90. A tip Please consider the following. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
91. Other Techs There is a world out there. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
92. Polyglotism It is not an illness. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
93. Different Worlds But so similar. @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
94. Community Contributing to something @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12
95. Free Beer and Stuff? Tweet @engineyard @davidcoallier — Italy —phpDay 2012 Sunday 20 May 12