A short presentation about FuelPHP framework i gave in 2012 in a workshop held by PeoplePerHour.com in its Athens HQ

1. Exploring
FuelPHP
Why
on
earth
would
you
do
that?

2. Eeeeewwww
you
use
PHP?
• Isn’t
PHP
like…
ancient?
• Who
writes
PHP?
You
know
it’s
2012,
right?

3. We
do!
• PeoplePerHour
does
• Facebook
does
• Mailchimp
does

4. Why
PHP
• Well
established
language
• Huge
community
• Great
support
by
hosting
providers,
docs,
libraries,
open
source
projects,
frameworks

5. What
is
FuelPHP?
• (H)MVC
PHP
Framework
• PHP
5.3+
up
• 100+
Contributors
• Best
developers
from
CodeIgniter
and
others

6. Aren’t
there
more
than
enough
frameworks?
many
others…

7. Why
is
it
different
• Best
ideas
from
all
PHP
frameworks
combined
• Fresh
and
up
to
date
• Brings
new
ideas
to
the
table

8. Idea
#1
• Out
of
the
box
support
for
NoSQL
– Mongo
– Redis

9. Idea
#2
• Unified
static
method
for
getting
a
class
singleton
//example:!
return View::forge('home/index');!

10. Idea
#3
• Utilize
PHP
namespaces
so
that
the
classes
can
have
human
readable
names
echo Form::button('name', 'value’);!

11. Idea
#4
•
H-­‐MVC
Requests:
Controllers
can
be
loaded
by
controllers
as
widgets
if((Request::main() === Request::active()) {!
!// this is the main request!
} else {!
// this is a HMVC request!
}!

12. Idea
#5
• Routers
inside
controllers

13. Idea
#6
• ViewModels:
Even
less
logic
inside
views

14. Idea
#7
• Provide
various
types
of
controllers
for
templating:
– Base
– Rest
– Template
• Support
a
load
of
template
engines
through
Parser
package:
(Mustache,
Markdown,
Smarty,
Twig,
Haml,
Jade,
Dwoo)

15. Idea
#8
• Extremely
easy
installation
(copy/paste
2
commands)

16. Idea
#9
• Heavily
utilize
Git(hub)
– From
installation
to
packages

17. Why
I
like
it
• No
camelCase
allowed
(surprise)
• Super
fast
to
learn
• I
like
the
guys
that
are
working
on
it

18. So,
is
it
the
best
framework?
• No.

19. Which
PHP
framework
is
the
best?
• None

20. Exhibit
A:
Codeigniter
• Project
I
worked
on:
As
a
mobile
app
I
would
like
to
send
request
to
a
REST
API
and
get
JSON
– Only
3
things
used:
Database,
Memcache,
JSON

21. Exhibit
B:
FuelPHP
• Project
I’m
working
on:
As
a
developer
I
would
like
to
have
a
playground
project
that
has
no
actual
use
and
scope,
so
I
can
torture
myself
during
the
weekends

22. Choosing
a
framework
is
a
matter
of
taste
• Choose
any
framework
you
want,
seriously
• Doesn’t
mind
which
one
as
long
as
it
provides
the
right
tools
for
the
job
and
you’re
building
something
awesome

23. But
the
benchmarks…
• Screw
the
benchmarks
• It’s
not
all
about
how
many
requests
per
second
a
framework
can
handle
• MVC
is
slower
than
plain
PHP
anyway

24. Where
can
I
find
more
info?
• fuelphp.org
– @fuelphp
• Phil
Sturgeon
– philsturgeon.co.uk
-­‐
@philsturgeon
• Dan
Horrigan
– dh.io
-­‐
@dhorrigan
• Jelmer
Schreuder
– jelmerschreuder.nl
-­‐
@jelmer_fuel

25. Questions
• Go!

26. What
is
your
weapon
of
choice?
• Thanks