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Agile Tools for PHP

Philip Ting

+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

+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

+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

+Agile Values

Development tools are meant to address adaptability and simplicity

+Web Frameworks

Typically MVC Model View Controller

Simplicity and Adaptability

+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

+Web Frameworks - Adaptability

Zend Framework Enterprise development

Symfony Enterprise development Other pieces

Silex microframework (like Sinatra) CLI

+Test Frameworks

Unit Tests PHPUnit, SimpleUnit

BDD Behat, Codeception Selenium integration Cucumber integration

+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

+Other Tools

Dependency Management pecl, pear, Composer

Continuous Integration Can use Jenkins Xinc

Build tools Phing

Similar to Ant

+Conclusion

PHP is a very viable language to use for your project

Google and Github are your friends

+Demonstration