Developing with PHP Frameworks - An Intro to Symfony and Laravel

Every big PHP survey conducted in the past year (SitePoint (http://www.sitepoint.com/best-php-framework-2015-sitepoint-survey-results/)) points to the same undeniable fact - Laravel and Symfony are the top 2 most popular frameworks among PHP developers! In this meetup we're going to try and figure out why.

Session 1: Introducing Laravel

Speaker: Pablo Chiapetti, Laravel developer, co-organizer of the Buenos Aires Laravel meetup

Abstract: Laravel is a modern PHP framework which defines itself as 'beautiful and simple'. Too much, you think? I will show you why I believe this is true and what I've learned building web applications with Laravel so far.

This talk will be introductory to the framework and its ecosystem, and spoken in English.

Session 2: Build Web Apps Like an Inhuman with Symfony

Speaker: Almog Baku, entrepreneur, co-founder and CTO at Rimoto Software, Symfony developer, co-organizer of the Symfony Israel meetup

Abstract: Symfony is a PHP framework which is considered one of the leading frameworks in the PHP world. In this session, we'll introduce you to Symfony and discuss its features, qualities, and how to work with it (yeha! this mean coding time).

Agenda:

1. Who are you?

2. What is Symfony?

3. Why do we need it?

4. What can we do with Symfony?

5. Let's do it! (Building a simple blog)

Itinerary:

• 17:30 - 18:00 Food + mingling

• 18:00 - 18:45 Session 1

• 19:00 - 19:45 Session 2