Zend Framework is one of the most popular PHP framworks out there, however, there are a lot of people not happy or pushed away by its performance.This talk explains where Zend Framework loses its speed and how to regain it in your applications.Associated Slides

Access Control Lists are a tool that allows us to map permissions to objects within Zend_Acl this maps to a hierarchical arrangement of roles and resources.This talk will follow through the basic use of Zend_Acl and steadily build a series of practical examples to illustrate the different methods of creating and enforcing an ACL for an application. This will include how to implement some of the more complicated hierarchical relationships and advanced conditions through the use of assertions. We will also cover the design considerations of where to attach the ACL, with the differences between applying it to controllers or models. With a functioning ACL in place, we will examine some of the methods for persisting the list and whether that list should be static or dynamic.Alongside the straight functionality of our code, we will also examine how to effectively unit test it, improving its performance and analysing the level of security that has been created.Associated Slides

Roll up, roll up!Come along to watch your favourite frameworks go head to head in a bid to crown a champion. Expect honesty, hyperbole, lies and statistics as our experts debate and defend why their framework of choice belongs in your codebase.

Making an application scale and go faster is often seen as a wizardly task. We read the micro-optimisation tricks posted in tech blogs and apply them with unconditional trust and great hope, and then wonder why performances havent improved that much (Wait, I even replaced print with echo!!!).In this talk well see how we can take easy, practical steps we can apply over and over that really make a difference, by analysing what our application does under the hood, measuring how and where the different resources are used, eliminating the real bottlenecks and restructuring critical components to handle growing loads.Associated Slides

A lot of Web Services today claim to be RESTful APIs. But are they really? Do the URLs form a logical hierarchy, and do they accurately identify resources? Are the powers of HTTP leveraged properly? What is hypermedia, and what is the secret behind the HATEOAS acronym that is so essential to the REST architectural style? This talk gives answers and guidelines using real-life examples.

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Over the past two years weve been pushing to improve our automated testing practices within Plusnet and to win full support for it within the company across the spectrum of fellow developers, project managers and upper management. It took a while to agree on software we want to use, and standards we want to follow, but now all new code is being continuously built and tested and the results of that are visible business-wide. We use ;PHP_CodeSniffer

A quick romp though installing a full php development tool chain. Starting at A for Apache and ending at X for X-debug including U for unit testing and S for source control.

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Most PHP talks are given from the point of view of developers, managers, QAs, community members and other obvious stakeholders of the wonderful world of PHP.The story of the hoster is often untold, but the importance of the hoster is in a lot of cases underestimated. Hosters have a huge responsibility and deal as much with PHP related issues as the developers of the project.During this talk, Ill explain what our experiences with PHP are and how we apply our knowledge of PHP.Expect the following topics:Ensuring harmony on a shared serverDealing with hacked websitesBoosting performanceTeaching customers how to make their apps scaleSolving code issues serverwiseSecuring applicationsPatching, debugging & profilingAssociated Slides

Getting involved with the community behind PHP is not difficult, and everyone is welcome to participate to get involved. But whats this Getting involved thing ?In this session Ill explain what people can do to become part of the larger PHP community eco system, without committing code to the PHP core or other PHP related open source projects.Associated Slides

A behind-the-scenes look at how the popular PHP magazine operatespowered by open-source technologies and all of four people.