Agile Tools for PHP
- 1. + Agile Tools for PHP Philip Ting
- 2. + History of PHP 1994 Rasmus Lerdorf, CGI binaries in C, online visit tracker 1995 PHP released 1997 PHP 2 1998 Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans rewrite PHP into PHP 3, resembles PHP today 2000 PHP 4, Zend engine
- 3. + History of PHP 2004 PHP 5.0, Zend engine 2 2005 PHP 5.1, PDO database access 2006 PHP 5.2, JSON support 2009 PHP 5.3, namespace, late static bindings, closures 2012 PHP 5.4, traits, cli web server, array syntax
- 4. + Problems PHP Faced • Code Base • Naming inconsistencies (isset, is_null) • Lack of modern language paradigms • Changed for 5.3+ • Lack of solid development tools • Changed recently
- 5. + Agile Values Development tools are meant to address adaptability and simplicity
- 6. + Web Frameworks Typically MVC Model View Controller Simplicity and Adaptability
- 7. + Web Frameworks - Simplicity CodeIgniter Easy to plug in, simple to work with, large community Kohana Originally fork of CodeIgniter, also simple to work with CakePHP Similar to Rails, lots of code generation
- 8. + Web Frameworks - Adaptability Zend Framework Enterprise development Symfony Enterprise development Other pieces Silex microframework (like Sinatra) CLI
- 9. + Test Frameworks Unit Tests PHPUnit, SimpleUnit BDD Behat, Codeception Selenium integration Cucumber integration
- 10. + Object Relational Mappers Object Relational Mappers (ORM) Used for generating models Can be considered frameworks of their own Meant to address both adaptability and simplicity ActiveRecord Doctrine, Propel DataMapper Doctrine 2
- 11. + Other Tools Dependency Management pecl, pear, Composer Continuous Integration Can use Jenkins Xinc Build tools Phing Similar to Ant
- 12. + Conclusion PHP is a very viable language to use for your project Google and Github are your friends
- 13. + Demonstration