June 2013 Meeting

[Justin Etheredge]

Our June meeting is coming up this Thursday the 27th at 6pm.

This month's meeting is going to be a good one! Aaron Kuzemchak is going to be giving a presentation titled "The State of PHP".

PHP. Three letters that evoke a wide range of emotions. Developers love to pick on PHP these days, or simply brush it off as a language for amateurs, but most devs haven't bothered to see how things have improved in the last few years. We'll talk about some of the areas in which PHP has matured as a language, how the PHP developer's mindset and methodology has changed, and take a brief look at some of the newer frameworks that make development more fluent and... perhaps... more fun.

Aaron Kuzemchak is a Web developer and technology fanatic/geek/nerd/whatever who has been developing websites professionally since 2004. He currently resides in Richmond, Virginia and works as Senior Application Developer at Visual Chefs.

He loves utilizing PHP frameworks like Laravel and CodeIgniter for building Web applications, and content managements systems like ExpressionEngine for Web sites.

Even if your'e not a PHP developer, there will be plenty of lively discussion that you won't want to miss out on. Who wants to miss a discussion about the world's most popular server side programming language? Personally, I can't wait to see how PHP has evolved.

Hope to see all of your there!

We will be meeting at Snagajob's headquarters in Innsbrook:

4851 Lake Brook Drive, Glen Allen, VA

Ecstatic Labs is sponsoring the food, so please let me know if you're planning to attend so I know how much food to buy.

[Aaron Kuzemchak]

I'll be there, obviously! Looking forward to meeting you all.

[Peter Fries]

Damn, can't make it this month.

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[Vish Uma]

I will be there

Vish

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[Jonathan Pryor]

I'll be there.

- Jon

[Ari Ugwu]

I'll be there.

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De: Justin Etheredge
Enviado el: 6/23/2013 9:00 PM
Para: RS...@googlegroups.com
Asunto: June 2013 Meeting

[Kevin Griffin]

I happen to be in town and I'll be there!

Kevin

[SF]

I'll be there. 

Sixto

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[Harper Trow]

I'll be there.

Harper

On Jun 23, 2013, at 9:00 PM, Justin Etheredge <jus...@etheredge.us> wrote:

[Justin Etheredge]

Just sending out one more reminder to let me know if you're going to be attending tonights meeting. Thanks!

[Aaron Kuzemchak]

Quick question... where exactly in Snagajob's office will be be meeting? I've never been to their current office, but will probably head over a little early to catch up with some former co-workers there, and want to make sure I know where to be :)

[Justin Etheredge]

There are some meeting rooms to the left when you enter through the main entrance. It is next to the cafeteria area. We will find you if you don't find us!

{sent from my mobile phone}

[David West]

I'll see you guys there

[Armen Babikyan]

Hi,

I'm planning to be there too, but I won't be able to stay for the whole 2 hours.

See you there!

Armen

On Jun 27, 2013, at 4:52 PM, David West <wes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll see you guys there
>

[Adam Lenda]

I'm sorry for the late notice, but I will be there

[Aaron Kuzemchak]

Thanks everyone who came out tonight. Here are my slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/akuzemchak/the-state-of-php-2013

Regarding two of the questions that were asked during the presentation:

1. What happens if you bind the incorrect data type in a PDO prepared statement?

Although I can't find written proof anywhere, I believe that the PDO::PARAM_* parameters are mainly used to determine if and how a placeholder should be quoted in the query... not necessarily in converting the data to a specific type (although PDO::PARAM_BOOL does seem to convert INTs to 1 or 0). The SQL injection prevention will happen even if the wrong data type is used. Here's an example:

http://paste.laravel.com/yL1

Also, in the event that the wrong data type is bound, it will not throw an error or anything... it will just return zero results.

2. Regarding the order of precedence in Traits, see examples 2 and 3 here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php. I think there was another question about what happens if Traits have a naming conflict, and that is documented in example 5. Like I said, I have worked much with Traits, but now after reading the docs on them in more detail, there looks to be quite a bit of flexibility in working with them.

Thanks again for your time tonight! Please let me know if you have any questions!

[Justin Etheredge]

Thank you Aaron for giving the talk! It was excellent, and while I probably won't be writing any php soon, I think you were successful in making me no longer a hater :-)