Latest draft mindmap

[Stuart Herbert]

Latest mind map before we start hacking on it this afternoon. 

• PHP Fundamentals
  

• 0. This mindmap
  
• Record of topics that need covering
  
• Looking to separate out tools from practices
  
• Both are important
  
• Some overlap inevitable
  
• Keeping tools pages separate from practices might help us structure and grow the site
  
• Feels like a wiki appropriate
  
• With something like Moodle to teach the material in a specific order
  
• Not looking to teach PHP the programming language
  
• Looking to promote PHP practices
  
• Looking to promote sound engineering practices
  
• Less is more; hardest challenge will be agreeing what to leave out :)
  
• 1. Our Objectives
  
• 0. A standard the community supports and trusts
  
• 1. The absolute minimum a PHP developer must know to do her job
  
• Where do we draw the line?
  
• Where do we expect prior knowledge?
  
• What do we consider too advanced to be fundamental?
  
• 2. An awareness of advanced topics and techniques
  
• 3. An understanding of the PHP way
  
• 4. Where to go to get more in-depth information
  
• 5. Grass-roots training and accreditation
  
• 6. A community of good practice
  
• How agnostic will we be?
  
• Will we push standards?
  
• Or should we push "what works / is commonly used"?
  
• 2. Technology Stack
  
• Client-side
  
• HTML
  
• Dialects
  
• HTML 4
  
• HTML 5
  
• XHTML
  
• Browser-specific extensions
  
• Fundamentals
  
• Tags
  
• Tag IDs
  
• CSS styles
  
• CSS classes
  
• Attributes
  
• Entities
  
• Structure
  
• Head
  
• Metadata
  
• Stylesheets
  
• Body
  
• Content
  
• CSS
  
• Javascript
  
• AJAX
  
• Libraries
  
• Prototype
  
• Mootools
  
• jQuery
  
• Common tools
  
• Google Analytics
  
• Flash
  
• Network / internet
  
• DNS
  
• How DNS works
  
• TTL and caching
  
• HTTP
  
• Proxy servers
  
• HTTP caching headers
  
• Evil reverse proxy farms
  
• File transfer
  
• FTP
  
• SSH / SCP / SFTP
  
• Server-side
  
• Web Servers
  
• Apache
  
• IIS 7
  
• Lighttpd
  
• Databases
  
• SQL
  
• Relational Databases
  
• MySQL
  
• Storage engines
  
• MyISAM
  
• Innodb
  
• Admin tools
  
• phpMyAdmin
  
• Command-line tools
  
• Microsoft SQL Server
  
• Admin tools
  
• NoSQL
  
• CouchDB
  
• Cassandra
  
• Memcached
  
• PHP
  
• Installing
  
• Upgrading
  
• Execution Model
  
• PEAR
  
• PECL
  
• Build your own
  
• Frameworks
  
• Introduction
  
• CakePHP
  
• CodeIgniter
  
• Kohana
  
• Symfony
  
• Yii
  
• Zend Framework
  
• Make your own
  
• Bytecode caches
  
• APC
  
• xcache
  
• Configuration
  
• php.ini files
  
• Output buffering
  
• register_globals
  
• magic_quotes
  
• memory limits
  
• File uploading
  
• Operating Systems
  
• Windows Server
  
• Linux
  
• Different flavours
  
• Debian
  
• Ubuntu
  
• Redhat Enterprise
  
• CentOS
  
• Basic concepts
  
• Processes
  
• stdin & stdout
  
• Filesystems
  
• Case-sensitivity
  
• NFS
  
• Basic skills
  
• Users
  
• Logging in
  
• Changing passwords
  
• Creating users
  
• sudo
  
• Networking
  
• /etc/hosts
  
• DNS caches
  
• DHCP
  
• Server administration
  
• Installing packages
  
• Text editors
  
• vi
  
• nano
  
• Command-line basics
  
• Directory listings
  
• UNIX shells
  
• Basic shell usage
  
• Bash programming primer
  
• Services
  
• init.d scripts
  
• cron
  
• Hosting
  
• Shared hosting
  
• Dedicated hosting
  
• Cloud hosting
  
• Other Technologies
  
• Web Services
  
• SOAP
  
• REST
  
• XML-RPC
  
• File and data formats
  
• XML
  
• XML
  
• XSLT
  
• xpath
  
• JSON
  
• Protocols?
  
• Atom
  
• RSS
  
• Development Environments
  
• Desktops
  
• Choice of operating system
  
• Windows
  
• Linux
  
• Mac OS X
  
• Virtual Machines
  
• Editors and Tools
  
• Editors
  
• vim
  
• nano
  
• Emacs
  
• IDEs
  
• Eclipse PHP Development Tools
  
• Komodo
  
• Netbeans
  
• Zend Studio
  
• Debuggers
  
• xdebug
  
• Profilers
  
• xdebug
  
• Version Control Systems
  
• subversion
  
• git
  
• mercurial
  
• CVS
  
• Issue Trackers
  
• Bugzilla
  
• Basecamp
  
• Lighthouseapp
  
• Mantis
  
• Redmine
  
• Trac
  
• 3. Development Practices
  
• Architecture
  
• Design
  
• Usability
  
• Accessibility
  
• Coding Practices
  
• Organising your code
  
• PHP objects layout
  
• MVC
  
• Protecting config files
  
• Error checking
  
• E_STRICT
  
• Don't use @ ever!
  
• Exceptions
  
• FIEO
  
• Filter input
  
• filter_var
  
• Escape output
  
• To the browser
  
• htmlspecialchars
  
• urlencode
  
• To the database
  
• mysql_real_escape_string
  
• PDO
  
• User authentication
  
• HTTP basic auth
  
• Doing it yourself
  
• OAuth
  
• PHP sessions
  
• Explaining session IDs
  
• When to create a new session ID
  
• HTML form handling
  
• $_GET / $_POST / $_REQUEST
  
• Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
  
• Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks
  
• Redirect 303 after POST
  
• Change state only on POST
  
• Web services
  
• Global variables
  
• Proper use of parameters
  
• Passing variables into functions and methods
  
• Pass by handle
  
• Pass by reference
  
• Pass by value
  
• Treat your code as your own library
  
• Coding Skills
  
• Debugging PHP Code
  
• echo / die
  
• FirePHP
  
• xdebug
  
• Optimisation
  
• Caching
  
• Memcached
  
• Pre-generation
  
• Output buffer
  
• Code Profiling
  
• Assume nothing, profile everything first!
  
• Built-in instrumentation
  
• FirePHP
  
• MySQL EXPLAIN
  
• xdebug
  
• valgrind
  
• Bytecode Caching
  
• Zend Optimizer
  
• Testing
  
• Unit Testing
  
• Continuous Integration
  
• Acceptance Testing
  
• Source Control
  
• Version Control Systems
  
• Branching
  
• Tagging
  
• Documentation
  
• Code comments
  
• PHPdoc
  
• Deployment
  
• Packaging
  
• Tarball / ZIPfile
  
• PHAR files
  
• Handling dependencies
  
• Installing
  
• 4. Project Practices
  
• Requirements
  
• Prototyping
  
• Specifications
  
• Test Management
  
• Project Management
  
• Service Management
  
• 5. Community and Ecosystem
  
• Free / Open Source Software
  
• PHP Community
  
• Popular blogs
  
• planet-php.net
  
• PHP user groups
  
• Conferences
  
• Wider IT Community
  
• ISO
  
• SEI
  
• OGC
  
• Internet
  
• IETF
  
• RFCs
  
• 6. Mentoring & Accreditation
  
• Train the trainers
  
• Mentoring groups
  
• Accreditation
  
• A points system like on college courses
  
• Required to take a set number of modules from a set number of groups
  
• Certificate website, where you can show anyone what you've passed