Kansas City's PHP Developer Community - Latest Comments

Re: Discuss

yourgeekguy — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 01:37:12 -0000

Looking for a developer who could help us connect a couple of web based services we use for marketing automation. Prefer it being built in PHP. Would prefer a local developer. I have a full scope of work document I could send you if you are interested. Not even sure if this is the best place to post something like this, but email me if you are interested at randall@thepittgroup.com

Re: Discuss

Justin T. Watts — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:59:28 -0000

I'll pay someone's way if the will help me compete in Hack the Midwest. Email me at wattsjus@gmail.com

Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

James Byars — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:30:46 -0000

I really enjoy the simplicity of CodeIgniter and found it to be really easy to stand up. They have great documentation as well.

Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

BlueNinjaSmurf — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:18:17 -0000

I like this list. But I would add to it, before using a micro framework, to build a basic index.php file with some routing and CRUD features. Make it object oriented. Show them how OOP can be done in PHP 5.3+. Maybe even introduce them to closures. That way they can see how to do these things themselves and then they will have a better understanding of how these frameworks work.

Re: Programming PHP, 3rd Edition (O’Reilly)

Chelsy Brown — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 04:42:29 -0000

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Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

Kyle Reeves — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:10:27 -0000

Don't get too turned off by the static methods in Laravel. They're all Facades that create instances of the class. This blog post goes into some detail on that http://usman.it/laravel-4-u... . They're also written in a way that makes them much simpler to test. Jeffrey Way's book on Laravel testing covers this more in-depth. https://leanpub.com/laravel... . I haven't dove fully into L4 just yet but I've been working in 3 for awhile now. I came from CodeIgniter.

Overall, I have to agree with Mark's statements (although I'm not familiar with his analysis stack he listed). I believe we could follow some of the remarks from www.phptherightway.com .

I think it may also be worth it to look into Codeception (unit, functional, and integration tests)? Has anyone toyed around with that yet? It looks like a very impressive all around test suite with good docs. http://codeception.com/quic... Perhaps this might be something worthy of investigating before the next meet-up?

Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

jclermont — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:06:53 -0000

In a few weeks, I'm giving a talk on this very topic at thatConference: http://www.thatconference.c...

I'll post my slides after the event. Even though I can't go into as much detail as I outlined above in an hour, it may be useful to you nonetheless.

Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

Mark Baker — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 03:12:00 -0000

In addition to jclermont's excellent suggestions (particularly vagrant, SPL and Composer), I'd also be inclined to cover unit testing (PHPUnit); and the basic static analysis stack (PHPMD, PDepend, PHPCS, phpcpd, etc) and how to understand the results; plus namespacing and autoloading; decent secure login; and making sure that MySQLi/PDO prepared statements were covered rather than MySQL

Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

Phillip Jackson — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:43:36 -0000

As someone who has played around with development as a hobby for the last 4 yrs, I would say that the biggest mistake I made when I was introduced to PHP 2.5 years ago was not sticking with basic procedural PHP techniques before jumping into frameworks. Have a firmer foundation of the basic principles would have made learning a framework like Laravel so much easier.

So I guess what I am proposing is that you not jump into the frameworks or things such as development environments too fast. If I had it to do all over again, I would first learn how to use PHP to create a dynamic site or app. Next, how to bootstrap a dynamic site. Next, use a micro framework to help remake that same app or site, while introducing Composer to the workflow. Then take it either to a small framework Fuel/Codeigniter or Lithium and finally something larger like Laravel.

Again, I am not a pro and there is probably a better path that could be laid out then the one I have suggested above. But, the way I see it - the above plan (using that word loosely) would not only lay out for a better understanding of coding fundamentals along with workflow fundamentals as well.

Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

Dan H. — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:32:40 -0000

oooh! I like that. I wasn't considering saving time at the end to show off a full stack framework. That would help with demonstrating where they _could_ go from there. Thanks!

Re: If you were starting today in PHP?

jclermont — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:22:36 -0000

I'd recommend something like:

* Vagrant (reproducible dev environments that match production)

* highlight some of the core components of PHP itself (I'm surprised how many devs don't know about or use things like SPL)

* Composer (high level of how it works and why you'd use it)

* some micro framework (tangible demo of composer, use basic request/response stack of microframework then start bolting on third party components: templating, database layer, caching, auth)

* finish with a modern full stack framework (maybe Symfony2 or Laravel) and compare/contrast with the experience of a micro framework

Re: PHP Designer – A nifty windows PHP IDE

clod — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:36:34 -0000

Codelobster PHP Edition works much better for me - http://www.codelobster.com

Re: Private: Employer Spotlight

Lais Bo — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:16:54 -0000

We are looking to hire a an additional experienced PHP developer for a term of 8 weeks with option to come on full time after the 8 week term. It will pay very well if the experience is there. Please contact us at info@brazenwebdesign.com

Re: Members

Lais Bo — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:15:48 -0000

We are looking to hire a an additional experienced PHP developer for a term of 8 weeks (40 hrs/week) with option to come on full time after the 8 week term. It will pay very well if the experience is there. If anyone is interested please contact us at info@brazenwebdesign.com

Re: Discuss

Michael Richardson — Mon, 27 May 2013 14:14:54 -0000

looking for a php developer/programmer interested in some part-time freelance projects.

Please email me at michaelowenrich@gmail.com and we'll chat.

thank you.

Re: Discuss

Tyler Fayard — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:19:28 -0000

I'm looking to discuss some oportunities with a PHP developer in Kansas City or Metro Area that would be interested in working with me to develop an online Dashboard I would like to develop for investing. Please contact me at tylerfayard@yahoo.com if you are interested. I want to work with someone local, and while I have the funds, I would like to cut out the corporations for obvious reasons.
Thanks!

Re: Discuss

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Re: KCPUG needs suggestions for a new Saturday afternoon home

Bill Burns — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:25:31 -0000

Not a developer here. Just a FB friend of/occasional fellow cyclist w/ Noah D, but figured I'd chime in with a suggestion for a possible location for kc pug to meet on Saturdays. The Church of the Resurrection West (over near the Honeywell facility just south of K10 & K7 hwys seems like it might be a possibility.

I don't attend COR West, but they are typically very tech-savvy folks, and the facility likely contains some sort of meeting rooms. I can't imagine any COR not having onsite WiFi, either. Like I said, I don't attend either COR location for services, but you could probably cold-call 'em and see if they'd be open to your group meeting there. I'm sure they have plenty of activities going on all the time, but perhaps they'd have a room for you. You never know.

Ask and ye shall receive...?

Regards,
Bill Burns
Olathe

Re: May 2011 :: From Hash to Encryption, Solr

Dan H. — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:50:13 -0000

Thanks for the question. Looks like I had accidentally unhooked my old slides and demos from the new site.

Anyway, the Apache SOLR Slides link in the post above now works again. There are some concise (and maybe slightly outdated) examples in there. http://www.kcpug.org/doghou...

I used the PECL php extension: http://pecl.php.net/package... but there is at least one 100% PHP implementation out there.

Some tutorials for setting up Apache Solr and getting started with it, are available on their website at http://lucene.apache.org/so...

Thanks again!

Dan

Re: May 2011 :: From Hash to Encryption, Solr

Dan — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 04:53:52 -0000

Hi, are there any links to the topic?

Re: Discuss

Eleeper — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:36:32 -0000

Hi all!

Think Big Partners has an exciting event coming up and I’m hoping you can share it with your members/email list as well as any contacts that are developers that might be interested in learning how to develop on Windows 8 & Azure.

This is an amazing, free opportunity to be one of the first apps on the Windows 8 App Store when it becomes generally available to the public on Oct. 26 this year. Good for Kansas City and regional developers to be trained by the Microsoft developers who helped build the products. We would appreciate you passing along the below link as well!

Learn more here: http://thinkbigkansascity.b...

Let me know if you have any questions at eleeper@thinkbigpartners.com

Thanks!

Re: KCPUG needs suggestions for a new Saturday afternoon home

Sarah Snyder — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:26:31 -0000

Would love to talk about the possibility of making bizperc (coworking space at 1800 Baltimore) a new home. We would need to talk details. Email me at ssnyder@thinkbigpartners.com. Thanks! - Sarah Snyder

Re: Members

Dan H. — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:59:26 -0000

Michael - No worries. It looks like you found our "Members" page - mainly a placeholder for where I hope to do some member highlights, etc as we evolve.

You can always find information about our next meeting on our homepage at http://kcpug.org or our on our meetup page at http://meetup.com/kcphpug.

I'm assuming you came here from the block at the top of the homepage, so I've added an extra statement to point out our meetup block.

Thanks for the feedback!

Dan

Re: Members

Michael J Dulle — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:02:31 -0000

You indicate where you meet but I don't see when you meet

Re: Ideas for KcPug.org?

Dan Holmes — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:48:17 -0000

Looking at he API, some things to come to mind:

"Member Spotlight" - a random pick of one of the members, or past attendees
"RSVP Counts" - Show a sample or Total of RSVP's for the next event
"Next Event" - Show the next scheduled event.
"Suggest a Topic" - Provide some integration with the suggestions

Just thinking out loud.

http://www.meetup.com/meetu...