Zend Framework 2 is right around the corner, and so are the wonderful new features it provides! Whether you're a novice PHP developer, someone who's been eyeing the Zend Framework for some times, or someone who's already written several Zend Framework applications and want to get caught up on "what's new", this tutorial is for you.

This half-day tutorial will provide all of the fundamentals you need to know to build your own Zend Framework 2 web application from scratch.

There is lots of info out there on how to use testing tools but very little info on how to build your application in such a way that it can easily be tested. This talk will cover strategies that can be used to shape your application in such a way that you'll be making production pushes multiple times a day with complete confidence.

Small footprint libraries and so-called micro frameworks are a newer development in the PHP community. In this session we'll look at the MicroPHP Manifesto and go over building an application focused on the ideas presented by it. We'll look at a couple micro frameworks and other tools including Slim and Breeze as well as concerns with implementing your frontend with Backbone.js and other techniques. We'll also cover simple ways to organize your application and manage dependencies using Composer.

There area lot of new features in MySQl 5.6 that will be of big benefits to the PHP community including a NoSQL access to tables using memcached. Alsop, what will the new mysqlnd driver bring that will radically change your application design including the mysqlnd_ms extensions for load balancing and replication.

Performance is only one aspect of coding, sometimes having understandable and maintainable code is an even bigger asset to a team of developers pushing for a deadline or trying to get maintenance out of the way. How can you write more readable, hence better, code following a few directives that will also drive your architecture to new heights. What aspects of your code should you be looking at, and how can you make them clearer.

Testing is a part of your development workflow even if you've never written a single unit test. Automated testing will definitely help improve the quality of your code. This is not a surprise to most of us. Today we have access to tools and frameworks that make writing automated tests easier. In this session we'll look at when and how to use tools available for web developers including PHPUnit, Mockery, Behat, Mink, Jasmine, zombie.js, Siege, Sproxy, and more.

With mobile technologies becoming more and more widespread, developers need to take mobile into consideration when developing an API. These days, API's are built not only for web, but also for smartphones, tablets and other portable devices. This talk will cover mobile API design in detail, focussing on performance, scalability, security and everything else needed to build a high quality mobile API.

Maintaining a consistent development environment is hard—especially for junior developers and designers with no interest in system administration.

In this one-hour talk, I'll show you how my team develops locally, in VPN (Virtual Private Network) connected Virtual Machines, and how we make a team distributed in 5 cities feel a little like we're all working in the same room.

We'll touch on VirtualBox, Puppet, Vagrant, dpkg/APT, Amazon AWS (EC2, especially), IRC, HTTP Proxies, and lots of other fun tech.

One of my favourite things about meeting up with other developers to hack on a project is that they'll see how I'm doing things and chime in "hey, did you know that you could use ($someTool) to do that better?" I've been doing this web thing for a long time, and thus have built up a significant bag of tricks. In this talk, I'll share as many of these tips, tricks and tools as I can, as quickly as possible. The goal: leave with new ideas.

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This highly illustrative talk starts by quickly introducing BDD and Symfony and then dive into a real world application of Behat and PHPSpec bundles to drive the development of Symfony MVC applications in an agile, collaborative environment. Attendees will leave with a few new testing patterns to enrich their TDD/BDD practices. Special attention is given to specifying the domain layer.

PHP 5.4 is about to be unleashed into the world; bringing some of the most exciting changes to the PHP language to date. This talks covers everything you need to know to get up to speed!

There's a saying "hardware is cheaper than developers", but this only holds true if you treat your hardware with the respect it deserves.

Learn how to diagnose, confirm and fix bottlenecks in your application using new tools like XHProf and tried and true tools like xdebug.

Also, we'll take an in-depth look at apc (advanced PHP cache) and memcache; even if you know and use memcache, this one can probably teach you a thing or two.

Composer provides you with a new and simple way to describe and install a project's dependencies. Finally using 3rd party libraries in PHP projects is as easy it should be. Composer was inspired by concepts from Node.js npm, Ruby's Bundler and other package management systems. In this talk shows how Composer can help you with your next project and how you can make your libraries available for others. It'll demonstrate the advantages Composer has over other PHP package management tools.

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We all talk about how to best structure our projects and how to write ‘clean code’ for new projects, but what do we do for legacy systems? How do we explore an existing codebase, detect problem areas, find the specific problems, and fix them responsibly? This will be a detailed walk through, analysis, and review of our work on the open source project web2project and how it can apply these lessons to your projects.