Web Application

Development

Mohammed S. Makhlouf Mohammed Fouad Sayed Osama Galal Al-Agha

Trust Me (only this time)

• I know, You still don’t believe me•But, yes it is a web app!

MAMA

• Metadata Analysis and Mining Application• All Web Apps and web sites are pursuing web

standards!• Apache beats IIS!• Conducted by Opera!• More AJAX, Steady Flash usage

Disclaimer

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

All Statistics on the following slides are realistically fictional.

Do you visit google.com before?

Where do websites live?

Data Centers?!

Your own data center !!

Rent or Buy?!

It depends• Budget• Feasibility• Time• Experience• Effort

Moore’s LawP.S. Just Rent

216.239.59.103

• IP address (static or dynamic)• Servers usually have static IP

equals

DNS

• DNS is like a post office• Some post offices will be knowing some

addresses• DNS servers will have addresses like this

www.google.com => 216.239.59.103

Web Apps Development

15% Client-side engineering

85% Server-side engineering

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Web Apps Architecture

Web Apps Architecture

The Client Side

People say:It’s way easier than server-side development after all, it’s just HTML

Client-side Myths

Client-side Myths

Many Issues need to be considered for front-end engineering it is not just HTML

The Server Side

Web Servers

How PHP used to run?

How PHP runs today?

• MVC is not an architecture it is just a design pattern.

• Often confused with 3-Tier Client- Server architecture.

• (MVC) + (3-Tier Client- Server architecture) are a great mixture

• Akelos PHP Framework• CakePHP • CodeIgniter • Concrete5 • PHPonTrax• phpXCore• Prado

• Qcodo• Switch board• Symfony • Yii PHP Framework • Zend Framework • Zoop Framework • PureMVC

Zend Framework

• Use-at-will PHP5 Framework (Glue)• Open source - BSD license• Documented• Quality assured

Zend Framework Components

(Zend_Cache) GLUED !

Zend_Cache

• 1. Add Zend Framework to lib/Zend folder• 2. Create a cache data folder• 3. Set up the cache• 4. Wrap cache code around database query• 5. That’s it!

Prepare your self!

• A deeper dive in the practical session• Lots a code

ank YouPH(p)