make web, not war - building interoperable web apps with php, php quebec

Building Interop apps with PHP

Make Web Not WarJune 10th 2009

Toronto

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Introduction

About Me:

IT consultant

President & fonder of PHP Québec

Conference organizer “Conférence PHP Québec”

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PHP Quebec

Who we are?

Non profit organization created in 2003

Passionate people about web development

A bunch of friends

What we do?

Monthly meetings

Networking events

CodeFest

IT JobFair

Conference organization

OpenSource Hub

Raise a horde of ElePHPants !

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Who are you?

Do you program in PHP?

Do you create your applications with a platform agnostic MVC framework?

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A few numbers

PHP market share in Canada 29.29% (nexen.com)

Ontario : 30.92% (5th)

Québec : 28.92% (7th)

Community index June 2009 (Tiobe.com)

1. Java : 20.147%

2. C : 16.779%

3. C++ 10.594%

4. PHP: 9.675%

5. Visual Basic: 7.943%

6. Python: 4.756%

7. C# : 4.536%

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Web servers stats

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PHP Power Tools

Development Tools

Eclipse

Zend Studio

Komodo

Xdebug

Vim ?

Vast range of OpenSource software

CMS: Drupal, Typo3, Joomla

Wiki: MediaWiki, TikiWiki

E-Commerce: OsCommerce, Magento

ERP/CRM: Dolibarr, SugarCRM

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Who should consider building interop apps ?

Software providers

OpenSource developers

Anyone that does not control the production environment

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LAMP ↔ Windows, IIS, MSSQL

Things to consider

Performance & Stability

Database abstraction: MySQL, MSSQL, PostGreSQL,...

SQL Abstraction : Doctrine, Propel, Ez-Components, Zend Framework, Pear:DAO

URL Rewriting: Apache,IIS

System calls: pdf2text,ffmpeg, ...

PHP Extensions & function calls

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Other things to consider

Resources

Team skills (DBA, Programmers, Sys Admin)

Training

Documentation

QA: Unit Testing, Functional testing

ROI !!

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Budget Conferencing

The company

Conferencing services

Small young dynamic company

Traditional LAMP development LAMP environment

Old code base

Various people wrote the code

Critical System

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My Mission

My personal goal:

Increase code quality

Restructure the code base with MVC in mind

Release more features

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Getting things done

First step

• Put in place a software release process

• Write some functional tests

• Separate business logic from template

• Encapsulate all Database queries

The Migration

• Web services

• IIS, MSSQL, Java, C#, PHP

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Conclusion

Great Opportunities

PHP as 30% of the web market in Canada

IIS & Apache share over 80% of the web server market

Caution

Frameworks will only do a small part of the work

You need to discipline developers

Write Unit Test

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Useful links

Frameworks:

Zend Framework  http://framework.zend.com/

EzComponents: http://www.ez.no/ezcomponents

Symfony http://www.symfony-project.org

CodeIgniter:  http://codeigniter.com/

cakePHP: http://cakephp.org

PHP:

http://windows.php.net/

http://php.iss.net

http://www.phponwindows.ca

http://port25.technet.com/

PHP Québec:

http://www.phpquebec.com

http://conf.phpquebec.com

htp://www.codefest.ws

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Questions ?

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Thank you!

Email: yann@ylarrivee.comWebsite : http://www.ylarrivee.com