AzPHP User's Group

Meetings are held the 4th Tuesday of every month at: Walt's TV (map), and are approximately two hours in length beginning at 7:00pm and ending at 9:00pm, followed by a social hour(s) at a local restaurant.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. For more information about PHP please visit www.php.net.

The goal of this group is to bring PHP users in an informal atmosphere to share information. Meetings are held once per month; each meeting includes a "Beginner" presentation and an "Advanced" presentation. The "Beginner" presentation is geared toward those users who are just starting out with PHP--allowing these users to ask questions and garner the knowledge of the more experienced users in the group. The "Advanced" presentation is geared towards those who have been using PHP for a longer period of time and will focus on a topic that may not be well known or understand by all users.

Joshua Eichorn discusses some of the cool new features in PHP5.

Paul Yurt opens with discussion on Search Engine Optimization SEO.

The meeting starts at 7 at Walt's TV in Tempe and will be followed by food and conversation at Boulders on Broadway.

Ethereal is a sniffer, a tool for troubleshooting, analysis, and (surprise) development of software.

While ethereal is typically thought of as a tool for networking professionals, and it surely is great at those tasks, it can also be used by coders for looking under the hood or "on the wire".

Paul Yurt co-founder and developer of MasterMOZ a patent pending social web directory, goes into a deep exploration of Ethereal now called Wireshark.

Paul Yurt founder of MasterMOZ.com generated a lively discussion about standards from the perspective of the PHP community. No one was ignored and this was not as dry as it sounds.

This 6/26 meeting explored standards from the perspective of what people expect when they talk about developing, coding and techniques to standards.

Presentation given April 24, 2007 bu Eric Thelin. General installation and usage of subversion. PDF of slides is attached.

The PDF Version of the slides used in the Creating Pinacle Cart Themes and Plugins Presentation at the Feb meeting are now available.

This months meeting will be held on: February 27, 2007 at Walt's TV.

Start: 7:00pm
End: 9:00pm

Meeting Outline

• PHP News
• A discussion on why you haven't upgraded to PHP5
• Presentation:
  Adam Ballai will be covering Pinnacle Cart
• Immediately Following The Meeting
  Social Hour(s) at the place that used to be Old Chicago

This months meeting will be held on: October 24, 2006 at Walt's TV.

Start: 7:00pm
End: 9:00pm

Meeting Outline

• PHP News
• Presentation:
  David Schwartz will be presenting about ways to use your programming skills to make money.¹
• Book Signing:
  Joshua Eichorn will be signing copies for anyone who has purchased his book - Understanding AJAX.
• Immediately Following The Meeting
  Social Hour(s) at Old Chicago

At the March 28th 2006 Meeting, Alex Dean gave an Intro to Regular Expressions talk and has published the notes. These notes can be found at: Regular Expression Presentation.

During the August 22nd 2006 Meeting, Alex Dean gave a presentation on running PHP 4 and 5 on the same server using FastCGI and has published his presentation notes on his website. These notes can be found at: Running PHP4 & PHP5 concurrently.