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• Intro to #memtech: PHP December 5, 2011

• Jeremy Kendall
• http://about.me/jeremykendall

2. Who is this guy?

Jeremy Kendall PHP developer since about 2001 Organizer of Memphis PHP Zend Frameworkexpertfanboi Speaker Photographer Sometime blogger Sometime open source contributor Not as smart as you

#memtech

3. Following Along

You can follow along with the presentation code at github.com. http://github.com/jeremykendall/bookshelf

4. What is PHP?

Scripting language

5. Designed for the web 6. Cross-platform 7. Free (as in beer) 8. Getting started

Included in most Linux distributions

9. Included in OS X 10. Mac: MAMP, MacPorts, Homebrew . . . 11. Windows: WampServer, xampp 12. Google, follow instructions, and . . . 13. . . . you can be coding in about 5 minutes 14. Why Did You(or why do you want to) Start Programming? 15. I Wanted to Solve Problems

I usually caused more problems than I solved

16. We'll solve a problem together 17. Create a typical first web application 18. Make horrible mistakes 19. Correct those mistakes 20. Make a cool improvement 21. Learn something? 22. What's the Problem?

I want to create an application that stores and displays books from my bookshelf

23. Requirements:

Display books

24. Add books 25. Edit books 26. Delete books Why no delete? I ran out of time and energy. 27. So, What do we Need?

Database (sqlite)

28. View (index.php) 29. Form (book-form.php) 30. Form processor (process-form.php) 31. index.php 32. book-form.php 33. Database Schema CREATE TABLE bookshelf( idINTEGER PRIMARY KEY , title, author ); 34. index.php db connection < table > < tr > < th > Title th >< th > Author th > tr > < tr > < td > < a href= "book-form.php?id=" > a > td > < td > td > tr > table > < p > We have no books! p > 39. index.php books table < table > < tr > < th > Title th >< th > Author th > tr > < tr > < td > < a href= "book-form.php?id=" > a > td > < td > td > tr > table > < p >We have no books! p > 40. index.php books table < table > < tr > < th >Title th >< th >Author th > tr > < tr > < td > < a href= "book-form.php?id=" > a > td > < td > td > tr > table > < p >We have no books! p > 41. index.php books table < table > < tr > < th >Title th >< th >Author th > tr > < tr > < td > < ahref="book-form.php?id="> a > td > < td > td > tr > table > < p > We have no books! p > 42. book-form.php