DC PHP Developers Group

We had our August 2008 meeting last night and we had a presentation on Robust Permissions for Web Applications by Brandon Savage of DC PHP.

The notes and the files discussed are attached for your download and viewing pleasure.

Announcement on the September meeting is coming soon!

The DC PHP Developer's Group will hold it's monthly meeting on May 14th, 2008 at Greenpeace, in Washington, DC.

Presentation: PHP, Pizza & Pi -- Uses for PHPs graphics handling
Presenter: Robyn Wyrick, President of DC PHP
When: Wednesday, May 14th at 7:00 PM
Where: GreenPeace Office, Washington D.C.

702 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 462-1177

Hope to see you there!

Offer Ends April 15th!

DC PHP Developers Group is offering Early Registration Discounts at the 2008 DC PHP Conference.

$295 for the full conference

That's a $300 discount, but it only lasts another week.

To sign up please go to http://www.dcphpconference.com/?q=node/4

See you there in June!

The DC PHP Developer's Group will hold it's monthly meeting on April 9th, 2008 at Greenpeace in Washington, DC.

Presentation: Code Editor and IDE Show and Tell (smackdown?)
When: Wednesday, April 9th at 7:00 PM
Where: GreenPeace Office, Washington D.C.

702 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 462-1177

Hope to see you there!

There is a developer's group meeting on Wednesday, March 12th 2008 at 7:00 PM.

When: Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 PM
Where: GreenPeace Office, Washington D.C.

702 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 462-1177

Please join us!

Thanks to Steve Goodman for his excellent and enlightening presentation on Subversion. Attached are a copy of his slides.

When: Wednesday, August 8th at 7:00 PM

Where: Greenpeace Office, Washington D.C.
702 H Street, NW

Presentation: Subversion
- The basics: what subversion is, how it works and how to get started using it
- Hosting your repository (how to set up local, remote or 3rd party hosted repos)
- Using subversion to deploy for the web
- Extending subversion with hooks
- tools that use subversion

Presenter: Steve Goodman.

Attached are the presentation notes for Ben Colombini's Drupal and PHP Object Generator (POG) presentations. Hope you enjoyed them!

We are always looking for new presenters, so if you are interested in presenting, please use the Contact Us and tell us about your presentation idea!

The notes for Josh Walton's presentation can be found attached to this post, as well as at his website.

Thanks again, Josh, for your excellent presentation.

When: Wednesday, June 13 at 7:00 PM

Where: Greenpeace Office, Washington D.C.

702 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 462-1177

Presentation:

Ben Colombini will present a "Basic Drupal Module"

• Used as a starting place when building drupal modules
• Provides documented empty example code for basic module functionality
• Example usage of essential Drupal API 'hooks'
• Learning tool for beginners, time-saver for Drupal veterans
• Created using PHP (Drupal uses PHP)
• Links to online documentation

Ben will also talk briefly about the "PHP Object Generator"

• Open-Source web interface for creating and modifying database schema
• Generates PHP Code for Data Access / Value Objects that follow a standard API
• Acts as a Database Abstraction Layer with support for various databases
• Automatically creates and aligns database tables to generated objects