Getting started with Zend Framework (2 or 3) is relatively easy. But once you have a basic CRUD application up and running where do you go from there? In this tutorial, we will take a pre-build ZF application straight from GitHub, and apply some simple(ish) rules to make a basic ZF application run in a more modern way. Say […]

In this hands-on tutorial with ZF2 and Apigility, we’ll build several working APIs and learn how Apigility can help you build REST (and RPC) APIs quickly, easily and consistently. Since Apigility is opinionated, many decisions have been made which will reduce your cognitive load and help you focus on writing the interesting bits of code […]

Zend Framework 3 is here! While the upgrade path from ZF2 to ZF3 is nowhere near as complicated as from ZF1 to ZF2, there are still plenty of things the prepared developer needs to know to make upgrading as seamless as possible. In this session, we’ll cover the backwards compatibility breaks, and which parts of your application you’ll need […]

Are you tired of ugly code that concatenates strings to build SQL? Want to write database abstraction layer that is compatible with multiple database backends? Then this talk is for you! In this talk we will learn about ZendDb, a powerful database abstraction library for PHP. We will learn how to use ZendDb to programmatically […]

One of the most frequently recurring subjects in PHP forums and communities is the choice of a framework for a specific project. There are a lot of available PHP frameworks and new ones being made every moment, This talk will explain the basic concepts of frameworks, make a comparison between the most popular frameworks in […]