Comments on: PHP Conf Lon Live [1]

By: akrabat

akrabat — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:41:13 +0000

Just got back from the conference and thought it was excellent. The social last night was good too – makes me wish I lived in London!

I was going to comment more, but decided to put my thoughts as a post on my blog instead as it got a bit long…

By: Ivo Jansch

Ivo Jansch — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:49:17 +0000

I’m enjoying the conf so far. Pavel’s talk contained some eye openers, it was very interesting, despite the microphone problems. As for Derick’s talk, to be honest, I’m a bit dissapointed about what ezComponents is. Will blog about that later, I just thought it would be more of a framework than a set of components. I want to have a chat with Derick about it, hope he has some time to spare.

Looking forward to your Ajax talk.

By: HarryF

HarryF — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:43:35 +0000

OK – not going to create extra blog entries for each talk. Pavel’s talk was interesting. Not going to try to explain dependendancy injection right now but the PHP implementation of Picocontainer looks good – as in it’s well suited to PHP and what makes PHP special. It’s also used on a large code base in a web portal in Poland.

By: HarryF

HarryF — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:42:04 +0000

Update / notes on ez components. Basically it’s in the same kind of league as PEAR packages – a collection of useful libraries for common stuff.

Probably the two most useful parts, that everyone could agree on is their mail sender (which handles ‘harder to implement’ stuff like encoding headers and charsets) and their image library, which provides an independent API to stuff like GD and imagemagick and makes it very easy to do powerful “stuff” with images, like a transform that converts color to black an white.

There’s a bunch of other cool stuff but may have less broad appeal (e.g. there’s a template engine in there)