Daniel K. Theemann

Finally, today I got my request, to participate in the International PHP Conference 2008, approved. I am really looking forward to plan my conference among this huge selection of interesting sessions to chose from. The conference plan can be found here.

My choice of sessions will be regularly updated here.

Power workshop:

• Quality Assurance in PHP Projects – In-Depth Best-Practises
  (by Max Horváth and Wojciech Duda)

Conference sessions:

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This is the title of my diploma project and the implemented software component. I need a better and definitely a shorter name (abbreviation would be nice). So if you have any good suggestions please let me know (post a comment).

Maybe your suggestion will be the title of my workflow engine.

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Finally, after six months of hard work, I handed in my diploma project today. The project’s report and software component (Light-weight PHP workflow engine for BPEL 2.0) will be uploaded to my webpage under “Projects” after my exam and its possible corrections.

So please feel free to download my work and try it out – all kind of comments are of great interest, so that I can improve the workflow engine.

The workflow engine will get its own webpage as soon as possible. The webpage will be announced here later, so come back now and then…

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Thanks to Sebastian Bergmann there some very nice

">slides available about the PHP object model. I will recommend anyone interested in PHP’s object model to take a look at the slides.

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I’m look forward for the slides about type-safe objects and reflection in PHP.

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I have used a lot of different PHP IDE (like Eclipse PDT, Bluefish, Quanta+, Nusphere PhpED etc.) by now, but I’m still not overwhelmed.

I would like to hear from people out there programming PHP, I would appreciate if you could post a comment about your experience with your favorite choice of IDE and why it is your favorite.

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Yesterday I went home from the International PHP Conference (IPC) in Frankfurt. My main interests for the IPC was the topics testing, software quality and framework.

They were covered by some great sessions from Sebastian Bergmann .

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We all know that you as a programmer often is in a situation, where you proberly use an if-else construction. But you don’t always have to, often it is more sophisticated to use the sentence from the title and assign the right value, when the variable is instantiated.

<variable> = <expression> ? <value> : <value>

Let me give an example “when the sky is dark, then daytime is night, otherwise daytime is day”.

[source:php]
< ?php

$sky = “Dark”;

if(strcmp($sky, “Dark”) == 0) {
$day_time = “Night”;
}
else {
$day_time = “Day”;
}

?>
[/source]

The piece of code where you assign a value to “day_time” could you easily write on line:

[source:php]
< ?php

$sky = “Dark”;

$day_time = strcmp($sky, “Dark”) == 0 ? “Night” : “Day”;

?>
[/source]

So keep this little trick in mind, whenever a variable can be assigned one of two possible values.

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