1. Roy Ganor | Zend Technologies
Better Together –
PHP and Ajax Best Practices
http://joind.in/2240

3. @since

4. Who Are You?

5. Designer/Developer Workflow
Visual
Designer
Interaction
Designer
Front end
Developer
Back end
Developer
Screen shots Components Skin All the rest…

7. Performance
• Front end
latency
• Back end
latency
Behavior
• Complicated
• Interact badly
Communication
• Designer to
Developer
• Developer to
Developer

9. • Very easy to write bad JavaScript code – hard to scale
• Awareness for the following JS libraries
 Prototype
 jQuery
 Dojo
 ExtJs (Sencha)
Tip #1 –Prepare to Scale up

10. • Separate back-end(core), front-end(ui), tests and
release stuff
• Enforce dependencies
• Separate PHP from Resources
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<buildpath>
<buildpathentry kind="src" path="core"/>
<buildpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.php.core.LANGUAGE"/>
</buildpath>
Tip #2 – Project Management

11. • Rich (HTML-based) informational text about elements shown in the
editor. Available in:
 Content assist
 Hover
Tip #3 – Rich Informational Text

12. • Hint element selectors
Tip #4 – Elements Selectors

13. • Easy running and debugging Web PHP/JS-based applications
Tip #5 –PHP/JavaScript Debug

14. Plenty of tools for Web developers
Tip #6 – Web Browser

15. Accurately analyze network usage and performance
Tip #7 – Application Performance

16. Tip #8 – Release based on Tags
# PHP Unit
phpunit.version=3.3.17
# PHP Documentor
phpdoc.version=1.4.2
# Studio Documentation (PDF, EULA)
documentaion.tag=HEAD
# Zend Framework
zf_19.version=1.9.3
# PHP
php5.version=5.2.10
php53.version=5.3.0
com.project.core=v20091007-1624,:pserver:cvs@cvs.int.net:/.repos,mi.r+qz^,Module/com.project.core/
com.project.ui=v20090819-1600,:pserver:cvs@cvs.int.net:/.repos,mi.r+qz^,Module/com.project.ui/

17. Demo

18. Mastering your tools is as important as mastering your code

19. Productivity = OutputInput X