1. JavaScript
8 Reasons Every PHP Developer Should Love It
Boy Baukema
24 January 2008
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2. Welcome!
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3. What I’ll cover
- 8 Reasons to love JavaScript
- JavaScript to PHP
- Availability
- Lambda functions & closures
- Libraries
- Future
- Resources
- Q&A
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4. Gmail?
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5. jQuery? Prototype.js? Dojo?
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6. Quirksmode.org?
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7. JavaScript Evangelist @
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8. 1. JavaScript is misunderstood
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9. 2. JavaScript IS the web
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10. 3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE
Do we really need graceful degradation?
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11. 3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE
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12. 3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE
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13. 3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE
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14. 3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE
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15. 3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE
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16. 4. JavaScript has lambda functions
VS
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17. 4. JavaScript has lambda functions
VS
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18. 4. JavaScript has lambda functions
PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5
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19. 4. JavaScript has lambda functions
PHP 5.3
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20. 4. JavaScript has lambda functions
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21. 4. JavaScript has lambda functions
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22. 5. JavaScript has closures
Javascript closure example
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23. 5. JavaScript has closures
PHP closure
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24. 5. JavaScript has closures
PHP closure continued...
“I never thought I'd say this, but I miss closures.”
- Marco Tabini, php|architect
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25. 6. JavaScript is different
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26. 7. Small and easy to extend
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27. 7. Small and easy to extend
strcmp
array_walk_recursive echo intval nl2br stripos
abs
asinh empty in_array number_format stripslashes
acos
asin end ip2long octdec strip_tags
addslashes
atanh exit isset ord stristr
array
atan explode is_array parse_str strlen
array_change_key_case
base64_decode exp is_bool pi strnatcmp
array_chunk
base64_encode filesize is_double pow strncasecmp
array_combine
basename file is_finite preg_quote strpbrk
array_count_values
base_convert file_exists is_float printf strpos
array_diff
bin2hex file_get_contents is_infinite print_r strrev
array_diff_assoc
bindec floatval is_integer property_exists strripos
array_diff_key
call_user_func floor is_int quotemeta strrpos
array_fill
call_user_func_array fmod is_long rad2deg strspn
array_fill_keys
ceil function_exists is_nan rand strstr
array_filter
checkdate func_get_args is_null range strtolower
array_flip
chop func_get_arg is_numeric require strtotime
array_keys
chr func_num_args is_object require_once strtoupper
array_key_exists
chunk_split getdate is_scalar reset str_ireplace
array_map
class_exists getrandmax is_string round str_pad
array_merge
compact gettype join rsort str_repeat
array_merge_recursive
constant get_class krsort rtrim str_replace
array_pad
cosh get_defined_functions ksort serialize str_rot13
array_pop
cos get_defined_vars lcg_value setcookie str_split
array_product
count get_headers levenshtein sha1 substr
array_push
count_chars get_html_translation_tabl log10 sha1_file substr_count
array_rand
crc32 e log shuffle tanh
array_reduce
create_function get_included_files long2ip sinh tan
array_reverse
date hexdec ltrim sin time
array_search
decbin htmlentities max sizeof trim
array_shift
dechex htmlspecialchars md5 sleep ucfirst
array_slice
decoct htmlspecialchars_decode md5_file sort ucwords
array_splice
defined html_entity_decode method_exists soundex unserialize
array_sum
define http_build_query microtime split urldecode
array_unique
deg2rad hypot min sprintf urlencode
array_unshift
die implode mktime sqrt utf8_decode
array_values
dirname include mt_getrandmax strcasecmp utf8_encode
array_walk
each include_once mt_rand strchr var_export
wordwrap
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28. 8. JavaScript is the future
“JavaScript is probably the most important
language in the world today.“
- Steve Yegge (ex-Amazon, now Google)
“Our JIT compiler generates code that is roughly
equivalent to the performance
of unoptimized C code (gcc -O0).”
- Andreas Gal, Mozilla Tracemonkey dev
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29. Learn JavaScript!
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30. 8 Reasons
1. JavaScript is misunderstood
2. JavaScript IS the web
3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE
4. JavaScript has lambda functions
5. JavaScript has closures
6. JavaScript is different
7. Small and easy to extend
8. JavaScript is the future
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31. Thank you!
http://tinyurl.com/ilovejs
Contact details:
Boy Baukema
boy@ibuildings.nl
http://twitter.com/relaxnow
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32. Questions ?
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