PHP Tools of the Trade

Mark your calendars! The next GrPhpDev meetup will be held Tuesday, October 15th at OST (605 Seward Ave. NW).

There will be free food!
There will be free beverages of a frothy nature!

Be sure to RSVP so we know how much to buy.

We will be talking about PHP tools of the trade. Composer dependency management, Code Sniffer style checks, xdebug and profiling, oh my!

We need speakers! Do you have a favorite php tool? Favorite IDE? Tell us about it! Send us a note with topic and we get you scheduled.

Scheduled speakers:

Ed Lomonaco - Composing Your PHP Project: Composer offers a nice and easy way to load any dependencies to a project. We'll go over the basics. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1619683/Composing%20your%20php%20project.ppt

Rob Alber - Discovering FirePHP: The days of echoing debug are past. Use FirePHP to deliver unobtrusive debug to your browser's control panel. http://servicedesk.pcr.com/widgets/FirePHP

Jon Clausen - End-to-End PHP Dev With Eclipse: There are many great PHP IDE's on the market and many of us have a sentimental favorite like NetBeans, Dreamweaver, Zend Studio, Coda, or maybe even trusty old TextMate. With integrated version control, OOP introspection, unit testing, code hints, dictionaries and much, much more, here's why you should give Eclipse a place on your dance card.

Brian Scaturro - PHPStorm, A Love Story: PHPStorm is truly an integrated development environment. We will cover how to get a project started with Composer, run unit tests, and how to debug a project with XDebug. Along the way we will use the integrated git controls and built-in REST console.