Our Mission:   The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we believe we can foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.

PHPUnit in Practice

Jul 8 2008 - 6:30pm
Jul 8 2008 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
PHPUnit

Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]

Theory and real-world strategies for unit testing using PHPUnit. Moxley Stratton will cover test framework setup, model testing, controller testing, test suite organization, mock objects, and other techniques. Examples will be built within an MVC context using Zend Framework.

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Building Mobile Applications for Fun and Profit

Jun 10 2008 - 6:30pm
Jun 10 2008 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
June 10th Meeting

Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]
-- There will be pizza sponsored by GoLife Mobile --

Come learn how to use your PhP skills to quickly create mobile applications that make you money!

GoLife Mobile announces VADOWERX™, a revolutionary new Service Oriented Architecture that lets PhP and other web developers build, distribute, and monetize interconnected, personalizable, mobile applications. The VADOWERX™ ecosystem enables mobile consumers to easily discover and use a wide variety of compelling socially and contextually aware services on their phone. For example, one of our community members is actively developing an application for the Oregon swim team to provide parents with real-time meet information on their cell phones. Another partner is creating a mobile Point Of Sale solution for Latin America businesses. Using VADOWERX™, the possibilities are endless.

GoLife's Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Mounir Shita, will be presenting on VADOWERX and demonstrating how to create applications with it. Come learn more!

Software developers are a creative class of individuals and passionate about cool technology; particularly if it involves technology which can interact with the physical world. At the same time, hundreds of millions of users want to use their mobile devices to accomplish their real-world goals. Mobile technology has finally matured to the point where wireless devices can be interactive devices for accomplishing useful real-life tasks. VADOWERX™ sits at the juncture of these opportunities, fusing together diverse sources of electronic data and giving users the ability to interact with information while going about their everyday lives.

About VADOWERX™: The VADOWERX™ architecture enables developers to quickly build meaningful mobile lifestyle solutions and provide users with the compelling applications for interacting with their surroundings.

  • Key features for developers include: open-standards-based development framework; horizontal integration of data sources; community driven data modeling, built-in application distribution; and revenue sharing.
  • Key features for users include: a cross-device lightweight client, on-demand application access, a unique ability to customize data and display preferences, and real-world applications that enhance their lives.

Monetizing Development: To encourage an active developer community, VADOWERX™ boasts a novel reoccurring revenue model. When an application is used, unobtrusive interstitial advertising is displayed to the user. Our framework tracks advertising revenue generated by the components of each application. Developers are paid according to frequency of components use.



 

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Pub Meeting at Green Dragon

Apr 8 2008 - 6:30pm
Apr 8 2008 - 8:30pm
Etc/GMT-8
April 8'th Meeting

No formal presentation this round, just excellent selection of micro brews. The meeting is open to the public (as always), but sorry, beverages are not sponsored.

The dragon does have free wifi (Gotta luv Portland!)
see you there.

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Executing MySQL Stored Procedures in PHP Web Applications

May 13 2008 - 6:30pm
May 13 2008 - 8:30pm
Etc/GMT-8
May 13'th Meeting

Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]

This presentation will cover the following topics:

  • Why MySQL stored procedures? Pros and cons
  • MySQL stored procedures, functions and triggers development using Toad for MySQL 4.0
  • Executing MySQL stored procedures to return results in PHP web applications
  • Executing MySQL stored procedures to insect, update and delete records in PHP web applications
  • Application business logic implementation in MySQL stored procedures
  • Executing MySQL stored procedures using PHP Data Objects (PDO)
  • Slides, docs, examples and source code will be provide

Presented by: Ernest Bonat, Ph.D.

Visual WWW, Inc.

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PHP IDE/Editor Roundup

Mar 11 2008 - 6:30pm
Mar 11 2008 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
March 11'th Meeting

Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]

We will be showing the pros and cons of various PHP IDE/Editors. So far on the list are Textmate, and Zend IDE.

If you have a favorite Editor and would like to show it off, we will certainly give you projector time also.

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