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Chris Cornuttphp|tek 2009 - Chicago, IL

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU(GETTING TO KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU...)

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GOOGLE TRENDS

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PHP5: July 2004 Last PHP4: Aug 2008


DEVELOPERS, LET’S MEET OUR FRAMEWORKS!

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CAKEPHPWHO LOVES YA, BABY?

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CAKEPHPINTRODUCTION

• “Simple is Good”

• Mental “point and click” in applications

• Lays out an example structure for you

• Works for you on two levels - websites and cli

• bake puts the “rapid” in RAD

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CAKEPHPWHAT’S IN THE BOX

• Access control

• Ajax integration (Prototype)

• HTML generation

• XML handling (including RSS feeds)

• Caching

• Session Handling

• Security (request filtering)

• Command-line functionality (build scaffolding/models/etc)

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• Cookie Handling

• Email Support

• Request Handling

• Javascript Integration

• Data Pagination

• Text Manipulation

• Date/Time Support

• Inflection


CAKEPHPRESOURCES

• Manual at CakePHP.org (aka The Cookbook)

• The Forge - project management for CakePHP applications

• The Bakery - all things CakePHP (Tutorials/Behaviors/Case Studies/Plugins/Helpers/Snippets)

• Extensions for other software like Komodo, Selenium, Firefox

• #cakephp on Freenode (irc)

• The Show - http://live.cakephp.org8


http://live.cakephp.org

http://live.cakephp.org

CAKEPHPWHAT THE CRITICS SAY

• Wrappers around simple data types

• Claims of bad markup in HTML helpers

• It’s not “Enterprise Capable”

• Poor/confusing documentation

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CODEIGNITERSIMPLE AND SPEEDY

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CODEIGNITERINTRODUCTION

• Focuses on simplicity (doesn’t get in the way)

• Small, light and easy

• “Install and Go”

• Product of EllisLabs

• Originally for PHP4, changes have been made for PHP5

• Kohana is a PHP5-based fork11


CODEIGNITERWHAT’S IN THE BOX

• Database integration

• Encryption

• Form validation

• HTML rendering

• Session handling

• Locale support

• Templating

• XML-RPC

• Zip/Compression

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• FTP Support

• Pagination

• Image Manipulation

• Calendars

• Input/Output Filtering

• Trackbacks

• Text Formatting (Typography)

• Custom Configuration

• Language/Locale Support


CODEIGNITERRESOURCES

• User Guide at the main site: CodeIgniter.com

• CodeIgniter Forums: CodeIgniter.com/forums

• Community Wiki: CodeIgniter.com/wiki

• Extension for Firefox (user guide)

• TextMate bundle

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CODEIGNITERWHAT THE CRITICS SAY

• Difficult to have any sort of “sub applications” in your code

• Lazy loading could cause overhead as libraries grow larger

• Simple included libraries lose some advanced features

• Fewer bundled libraries (no repository like the Bakery to get more)

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This one’s for you, Ed


SOLARSTRONG AND CONSISTENT

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SOLARINTRODUCTION

• PHP5-only from the start

• Fully-namespaced

• Focus on structure and elegance

• Uses several enterprise development patterns

• Smaller user base, close-knit development community

Data Mapper, ServiceLocator, Query Object, Registry, Lazy Load

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SOLARWHAT’S IN THE BOX

• Access control

• Caching

• JSON Support

• Logging

• Markdown

• Web Services


• Unit testing

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• Documentation Generation

• Inflection

• MIME Support

• SMTP

• Database Support

• Request Handling

• Locale Support

• Registry


SOLARRESOURCES

• Main site at SolarPHP.com

• Community Blog at SolarPHP.com/blog

• Solar Wiki at SolarPHP.org

• Solar Manual at SolarPHP.org/manual

• #solarphp on the Freenode (irc)

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SOLARWHAT THE CRITICS SAY

• Poor documentation

• Not enough unit testing coverage

• Different sort of structure (controller/view and model)

• Slower release cycle

• Much lower adoption

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ZEND FRAMEWORKYOU WANT IT? WE GOT IT

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ZEND FRAMEWORKINTRODUCTION

• Standards-oriented & strong

• Targets itself towards both the casual developer and Enterprise level users

• Defined control over source (CLA)

• Only MVC by convention, really a set of components (with MVC tendencies)

• Large community of developers and users22


ZEND FRAMEWORKWHAT’S IN THE BOX

• Flex integration

• Exception handling

• Form Validation

• LDAP Interface

• OpenID

• Dojo Integration

• Unit Testing

• Translation

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• Authentication

• Caching

• Code Generation

• Date Handling

• Feed Parsing


• Google Apps Integration

• Currency formatting

• Infocard support

• MIME Handling

• PDF

• REST Interface

• Akismet Integration

• Popular Web Service Interfaces

• XML-RPC

• Progess Bar


ZEND FRAMEWORKRESOURCES

• Main site at framework.zend.com*

• Manual at framework.zend.com/manual/en

• Quickstart at framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart

• Contributor’s wiki at framework.zend.com/wiki

• #zftalk on Freenode (irc)

* Framework site also includes: case studies, video tutorials and bug tracker

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ZEND FRAMEWORKWHAT THE CRITICS SAY

• Technically* not a framework

• Tries to do it all without focusing on certain strengths

• Too much object abstraction

• Loosely coupled components can force you to make links

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* Don’t send the Zend Goon Squad for me


THE FRAMEWORKSAT A GLANCE

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Framework Components Helpers

CakePHP 7 12

CodeIgniter 25 21

Solar 34 49

Zend Framework 75 22


A CLOSER LOOKINSTALL & DEVELOPMENT

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INSTALLATIONCAKEPHP

• Load & Go

• Change configuration options

• No need to make directories, it’s all included

• Bootstrap and front controller included

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In /app/config:Database connections, routing, session handling, caching options, access control


INSTALLATIONCODEIGNITER

• Dead simple

• Update configuration for your site

• Set up database connection information

• Change any autoloads you might want

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Sets up controller, helper, model, view, etc directories for you

Libraries/components loaded for every connection - useful for things like validation or certain models


INSTALLATIONSOLAR

• Not quite as “beginner friendly” as CakePHP/CodeIgniter for setup

• Requires some manual setup to get the ball rolling

• Unpack the libraries in one place, make the site in another

• Create directories for site/vendor/controllers & related files

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has the “Solar System”

/www/htdocs/project/vendor/App/www/htdocs/project/vendor/External/www/htdocs/project/vendor/<Controller Name>


INSTALLATIONSOLAR - BOOTSTRAP

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<?phpsession_start();

set_include_path('/www/htdocs/Solar:/www/htdocs/project:/www/htdocs/project/Test:/www/htdocs/project/Test/External');

require_once('Solar.php');Solar::start('/www/htdocs/Test.config.php');$front=Solar::factory('Solar_Controller_Front');$front->display();

Solar::stop();?>


INSTALLATIONSOLAR - CONFIG

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<?php$config=array();$config['Solar_Uri_Action']['path']='/';$config['Solar_Uri_Public']['path']='/Test/public';$config['Solar_Controller_Front']['default']='index';

$config['Solar_Controller_Front']['classes']=array( 'Solar_App', 'Test_App');$config['Solar_Sql']=array( 'adapter' => 'Solar_Sql_Adapter_Mysql', 'host' => 'localhost', 'user' => 'dbuser', 'pass' => 'dbpass', 'name' => 'testdb');

//Done!return $config;?>


INSTALLATIONZEND FRAMEWORK

• Similar in setup to Solar

• A “Do It Yourself ” Framework

• Unpack the framework

• Application can be built wherever

• Make a boostrap

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INSTALLATIONZEND FRAMEWORK - BOOTSTRAP

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<?phpdefined('APPLICATION_PATH') or define('APPLICATION_PATH', dirname(__FILE__));defined('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT') or define('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT', 'development');

Zend_Layout::startMvc(APPLICATION_PATH . '/layouts/scripts');$view = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->getView();$view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');unset($view);

$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();$frontController->setControllerDirectory(APPLICATION_PATH . '/controllers');$frontController->setParam('env', APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT);unset($frontController);?>


MY FIRST PAGEFROM ZERO TO “HELLO WORLD”

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CAKEPHPTHE CONFIG

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<?phpclass DATABASE_CONFIG{ var $default = array('driver' => 'mysql', 'connect' => 'mysql_pconnect', 'host' => 'localhost', 'login' => 'myuser', 'password' => 'mypassword', 'database' => 'mydb' ); }

DB Config - /app/config/database.php

create table notes ( note_title VARCHAR(100), note_detail VARCHAR(200), note_owner VARCHAR(10));

Example Database Table


<?phpclass MyController extends AppController {

var $name = 'MyController';

function index(){ $allNotes=$this->Notes->find(‘all’,

array(‘conditions’=>array(‘Notes.note_owner’=>‘ccornutt’

)) ); $this->set(array( 'title' => 'My First Controller', ‘notes’ => $allNotes ); }}?>

CAKEPHPTHE CODE

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Controller - /app/application/controllers/my_controller.php

View - /app/views/my_controller/index.ctp<?php echo $title.”<br>\n”;foreach($notes as $v){ echo $v[‘note_title’]' '.$v[‘note_detail’];}?>


CODEIGNITERTHE CONFIG

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$db['default']['hostname'] = "localhost";$db['default']['username'] = "myuser";$db['default']['password'] = "mypass";$db['default']['database'] = "mydb";$db['default']['dbdriver'] = "mysql";$db['default']['dbprefix'] = "";$db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;$db['default']['db_debug'] = TRUE;$db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;$db['default']['cachedir'] = "";$db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8";$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_general_ci";

DB Config - /system/application/config/database.php


CODEIGNITERTHE CODE

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<?phpclass First extends Controller { function index(){

$this->library->load(‘database’);$notes=$this->db->get_where(‘notes’,

array(‘note_owner’=>‘ccornutt’));

$to_view=array(‘title’ => ’My First Controller’,‘notes’ => $notes;

); $this->load->view('first_page',$to_view); }}?>

<?php echo $title.”<br>\n”;foreach($notes as $v){ echo $v[‘note_title’]' '.$v[‘note_detail’];}?>

Controller - /system/application/controllers/FirstController.php

View - /system/application/views/first_page.php


SOLARTHE CONFIG

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<?php$config['Solar_Sql'][‘adapter’]=Solar_Sql_Adapter_Mysql';$config['Solar_Sql_Adapter_Mysql'] = array( 'host' => 'localhost', 'user' => 'myuser', 'pass' => 'mypass', 'name' => 'mydb',);?>

DB Config - Appname.config.php


SOLARTHE CODE

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<?phpclass MyApp_App_First Extends Solar_App_Base {

protected $_action_default = 'index';

function actionIndex(){$db = Solar::factory('Solar_Sql');$bind = array(‘owner’=>‘ccornutt’);$notes= $db->query(‘select * from notes where note_owner = :owner’,$bind);

$this->to_view=array(‘title’ => ’My First Controller’,‘notes’ => $notes;

); }}?>

Controller - source/example/MyApp/App/First.php

View - source/example/MyApp/First/View/index.php<?php echo $this->title.”<br>\n”;foreach($this->notes as $v){ echo $v[‘note_title’]' '.$v[‘note_detail’];}?>


ZEND FRAMEWORKTHE CONFIG

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; Uses an ini file instead of a .php[production]database.adapter = PDO_MYSQLdatabase.params.dbname = "mydb"database.params.username = "myuser"database.params.password = "mypass"database.params.hostname = "localhost"

DB Config - /application/configs/application.ini


ZEND FRAMEWORKTHE CODE

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<?phpclass IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action { public function indexAction(){ $cfg=new Zend_Config_Ini(‘../application/app.ini’,‘production’);

$db=Zend_Db::factory($cfg->database); $result=$db->fetchAll(‘select * from notes’); $this->view->to_view=array( ‘title’=>'My First Controller', ‘notes’=>$result ); }}?>

Controller - /application/controllers/indexController.php

<?php echo $this->title.”<br>\n”;foreach($this->notes as $v){ echo $v[‘note_title’]' '.$v[‘note_detail’];}?>

View - /application/views/scripts/index/index.phtml


COMPARING THE FIRST STEPS

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FrameworkSteps to Install*

Steps to “First Page” Total Steps

CakePHP 2 3 5

CodeIgniter 2 2 4

Solar 5 3 8

Zend Framework 4 2 6

* Install can include: unpacking, creating directories and making changes to configuration files.


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HOW FRIENDLY IS YOUR FRAMEWORK?

C’MON, SHOW US THE LOVE


CAKEPHPWANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND

• Installation’s as easy as one, two....well, just two

• Code-based database relationships help keep things straight

• CLI app of schemas, db dumps and migrations

• Naming conventions keep you out of trouble

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hasMany, hasOne, belongsTo, hasAndBelongsToMany


CODEIGNITERWANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND

• Lazy loading lets you chose when & what

• Libraries = add, hooks = change, custom core = replacing

• Keeps you safe with URI restrictions and super-global resets

• Easy upgrading (over-write)

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SOLARWANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND

• Solar System (cli) gets you up and running fast

• Easy to develop on and for

• Friendly wiki manual keeps the community keep up-to-date

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ZEND FRAMEWORKWANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND

• It loves giving you just what you need

• Customizable everything

• Plays well with others

• It has plenty of other friends out there to help you out (over 10 million and counting)

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WANNA KNOW WHAT I THINK?

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DISCLAIMER: THESE SUGGESTIONS ARE BASED ON MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, ARTICLES, RANDOM PEOPLE ON THE STREET AND A FEW OTHER BLOGS OUT THERE. THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN MAKING IT UP FOR ALL I KNOW, BUT THAT’S A

RISK I’M WILLING TO TAKE. AFTER ALL, OPINIONS ARE LIKE...WELL, YOU KNOW. THAT BEING SAID, ENJOY THE LIST!


WANT A ROCK SOLID, WELL DEVELOPED FRAMEWORK THAT ISN’T GOING

ANYWHERE? GO ZEND.

• Standards for the code (CLA)

• Emphasis on strong, well-planned, well-tested code

• Large component base

• Zend as a backer (corporate)

• Strong developer community/strong user community

• Grown exponentially in just a few years51


NEW TO THE WHOLE MVC THING & WANT A FRAMEWORK TO HOLD YOUR HAND? CODEIGNITER’S THE WAY TO GO

• Does what you need without getting in the way

• User guide offers easy, complete documentation

• Pre-provided structure helps you get a handle on where each part of MVC ends up

• Helpful, active community (forums/wiki)

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LOOKING FOR POWER WITHOUT A LOT OF THE HASSLE? CAKEPHP’S YOUR GUY

• Friendly framework with helpful hints

• Pre-built structure let’s you hit the ground running

• Solid base components/tools

• Command-line rounds out feature set

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WANT SOMETHING TO APPEAL TO THE PLANNER INSIDE THAT NEEDS BOTH POWER & STRUCTURE? SHINE A LIGHT ON SOLAR

• Strong and standardized

• Similar interfaces found through out the code

• Uses well-practiced (enterprise) design patterns

• Command line builds project structures

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THAT’S ALL, GO HOMEJUST KIDDING, YOU CAN STAY FOR THE Q&A


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Frameworks:CakePHP - cakephp.orgCodeIgniter - codeigniter.orgSolar - solarphp.comZend Framework - framework.zend.com

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