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• PHP/FI 1 - By Rasmus Lerdorf released in 1995 (as old as you are!)

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor!

• FREE!
• Loosely typed, interpreted at runtime, server side -language
• No client installation needed
• Procedural and Object Oriented
• Not limited to, but commonly used to build web applications

Who uses PHP?

• 81,4% of the web runs PHP
• Yahoo!
• Facebook
• Wikipedia
• White house

How does PHP work?

The brain of the server

• request received (URL and GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, ...)
• access control (controller)
• data written, read, validated (model)
• response formed (200, 401, 500, ...) (view)

The brain of the server

response send

The response

• html, xml, json, rss, ...

The response

How to write the code

Editors

• Notepad
• Nano
• Notepad++
• Sublime text
• Eclipse, Aptana
• PHPStorm

How to write the code

Frameworks

• Silex (the one we will use today!)
• Symfony
• Zend
• Slim
• Lumen
• Laravel
• ...

How to write the code

CMS

• Drupal
• Wordpress
• October
• Magento
• ...

More than code

• Local user groups (PHP Leuven)
• PHP Benelux
• Conferences

PHPSTORM

Scenario

• Web server is on remote host, files are accessible via FTP/SFTP/FTPS

Project

• Project name: "workshop"
• Deployment options: Custom

Deployment options

• Upload changed files: On explicit save action

Parameters for server

Remote server root folder

• Make "azure" the "Project Root"

Remote server root folder

• Make "azure" the "Project Root"

Project web path

• Leave it completely empty