1. EdiPHP
The Students PHP meetup
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

2. Students PHP meetup
● ‘By students for students’
● A part of CompSoc’s open learning sessions
● Regular – every Wednesday
● Cool events (probably)
● Insight to web development world
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

3. Meetups Programme
● Introduction – 1 meetup – this one
● PHP and databases – 2+ meetups – next week
● Frameworks – 3+ meetups
● Zend Framework (creating an application) – 5+
meetups
● Advanced techniques of web development – 3+
meetups
● Summary – final meetup
● Next year @EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

4. Resources
● Means of keeping in touch
– Twitter: @EdiPHP (please follow us!)
– Facebook: http://bit.ly/EdiPHP
– Mailing list
● Slides available at
http://www.slideshare.net/EdiPHP
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

5. Questions
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

6. HTML
● Same XML, but with 4 letters
● Consists of tags, attributes, comments
● Should be validated with
– http://validator.w3.org
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

7. Live demo
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

8. A problem with raw HTML
It is not dynamic
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

9. Ways of making it dynamic
● Hiring mutant monkeys Juozas to do the job
● Writing a generator for HTML code
● Using a server-side scripting language
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

10. PHP
● A server-side scripting language
● Most popular, so widely supported in servers
● Open source
● Easy to learn
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

11. How PHP solves the problem
● It integrates into HTML
● Server pre-processes PHP code and turns it
into HTML
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

12. Live demo
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

13. Magic, eh?
● Follow our meetups to learn more about it
● Here’s how to do it
– Twitter: @EdiPHP (please follow us!)
– Facebook: http://bit.ly/EdiPHP
– Mailing list
● Slides available at
http://www.slideshare.net/EdiPHP
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP

14. Questions
@EdiPHP
http://bit.ly/EdiPHP