Atlanta PHP User Group

When: Thursday, Sept 2, 2010—7pm-9pm
Where: Plaza Level Conference Room at Colony Square, Midtown Atlanta

Five reasons to love CodeIgniter

Presented by Nic Rosental

It seems that nowadays everyone has the best framework that you should try out RIGHT NOW. After doing a bit of testing myself, I chose CodeIgniter and haven’t looked back since. I’m going to show you five reasons why you might be interested in trying out this framework and hopefully you’ll love it too.
You can take care of installing, deploying and setting it up on your own. There’s not time for the boring bits, so I’ll take you head first into some of the coolest features this framework has to offer.

Topics will include:
-URI Management
-Form and Data Validation
-Security and XSS Filtering
-Pagination
-Image Manipulation

Location

Our meeting will take place in the Plaza Level Conference Room at Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta. Click here for directions.

When: Thursday, March 5, 2009—7pm-9pm
Where: Consulate General of Canada

Presentation: Rapid Application Development with ModelBaker

Jonathan Freeman, creator of ModelBaker will present how to build a web application in a few minutes with ModelBaker, a rapid application development tool designed around the novice and agile PHP developer. Without any programming, we will create a web application from scratch that will automatically generate a complete MVC framework along with a newly created database, relationships, models, controllers, views, css and javascript. We will then enable an iPhone & iPod touch version of our web application for our mobile users.

Location

Our meeting takes place at the Consulate General of Canada at 100 Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta (at the corner of Peachtree and 14th Streets). Click here for directions. You will need to see the concierge in order to gain access to the 17th floor.

When: Thursday, February 7, 2008—7pm-9pm
Where: Consulate General of Canada

Presentation: The Tao of MVC

George Jempty demonstrates how to leverage his own BareBonesMVC (Model View Controller) engine, to balance simplicity against over-reliance on CMS and/or MVC frameworks. Mr. Jempty has successfully delivered professional software to prominent multi-national clients using BareBonesMVC, which he made publicly available at http://code.google.com/p/barebonesmvc-php/ in July 2007, and which has been downloaded over 1000 times since.

Mini-Series: Eclipse

Bill Hertz is slated to give a mini-presentation on using the Eclipse IDE as an editor for PHP.

Location

Our meeting takes place at the Consulate General of Canada at 100 Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta (at the corner of Peachtree and 14th Streets). Click here for directions. You will need to see the concierge in order to gain access to the 17th floor.