Building Interop apps with PHP Make Web Not War June 10 th 2009 Toronto

Introduction About Me: IT consultant President & fonder of PHP Québec Conference organizer “Conférence PHP Québec”

About Me:

IT consultant

President & fonder of PHP Québec

Conference organizer “Conférence PHP Québec”

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 !

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 !

Who are you? Do you program in PHP? Do you create your applications with a platform agnostic MVC framework?

Do you program in PHP?

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

A few numbers PHP market share in Canada 29.29% (nexen.com) Ontario : 30.92% (5 th ) Québec : 28.92% (7 th ) Community index June 2009 (Tiobe.com) Java : 20.147% C : 16.779% C++ 10.594% PHP: 9.675% Visual Basic: 7.943% Python: 4.756% C# : 4.536%

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

Ontario : 30.92% (5 th )

Québec : 28.92% (7 th )

Community index June 2009 (Tiobe.com)

Java : 20.147%

C : 16.779%

C++ 10.594%

PHP: 9.675%

Visual Basic: 7.943%

Python: 4.756%

C# : 4.536%

Web servers stats

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

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

Who should consider building interop apps ? Software providers OpenSource developers Anyone that does not control the production environment

Software providers

OpenSource developers

Anyone that does not control the production environment

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

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

Other things to consider Resources Team skills (DBA, Programmers, Sys Admin) Training Documentation QA: Unit Testing, Functional testing ROI !!

Resources

Team skills (DBA, Programmers, Sys Admin)

Training

Documentation

QA: Unit Testing, Functional testing

ROI !!

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

The company

Conferencing services

Small young dynamic company

Traditional LAMP development LAMP environment

Old code base

Various people wrote the code

Critical System

My Mission My personal goal: Increase code quality Restructure the code base with MVC in mind Release more features

My personal goal:

Increase code quality

Restructure the code base with MVC in mind

Release more features

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

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

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

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

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

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

Questions ?

Thank you! Email: yann@ylarrivee.com Website : http://www.ylarrivee.com