Sam Keen will demonstrate how he took the existing Trimet TransitTracker service and enabled it with SMS access This involved building a small 'Translation' web service to convert between the Trimet web api and the SMS gateway API.

Post meeting will be at Produce Row Cafe.

Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are everywhere. With Web businesses like Google and Yahoo! and brick and mortar companies like Harley Davidson and Sherwin Williams embracing RIAs for their online presence, the media buzz is giving way to the reality of a better Internet.

Adobe has recently contributed AMF support to the Zend Framework, allowing PHP developers to easily build Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Adobe AIR that interact with a PHP backend.

Ryan Stewart, a technical evangelist with Adobe, will give an introduction to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, and will walk through how to create a Flex application powered by PHP and the Zend Framework. Working with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and Flex Builder (an Eclipse plugin), Ryan will demonstrate how to build, debug and deploy applications built with Adobe Flex, and how to have these same applications run on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime.

With this knowledge, developers will be able to easily build rich Internet applications that combine data from PHP and rich media like audio and video into a compelling application.

Ryan’s bio can be found online at http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?page_id=2

The headliner for this meeting will be The folks at Concrete Studios giving us a tour of their CMS product: Concrete5 (c5)

What is c5?

concrete5 is a building material for the web. Working with a web designer or pre-existing theme, a site owner can create and easily change the content and structure of a website. Simply use the tool bar to point click and edit.

http://www.concrete5.org/

If time allows we will give a quick demo of setting up the Netbeans 6.5 PHP IDE with Xdebug enabled. http://www.netbeans.org/features/php/index.html

This presentation will cover the following topics:

• PHP Data Objects Model and Setup
• PHP Data Objects and Object-Oriented Programming
• MySQL Stored Queries Design and Development
• Calling MySQL Stored Queries in PHP Data Objects Programming
• Advanced PHP Data Objects Programming Tips and Ideas
• Conclusions
• Questions and Answers
• Slides, docs, examples and PHP source code will be provided

This presentation will cover the following topics:

• PHP Data Objects Model and Setup
• PHP Data Objects and Object-Oriented Programming
• MySQL Stored Queries Design and Development
• Calling MySQL Stored Queries in PHP Data Objects Programming
• Advanced PHP Data Objects Programming Tips and Ideas
• Conclusions
• Questions and Answers
• Slides, docs, examples and PHP source code will be provided

presented by Ernest Bonat, Ph.D. Visual WWW, Inc. www.evisualwww.com

A tour of PHP application debugging and profiling techniques using open source tools such as

• Xdebug [http://www.xdebug.org/]
• Netbeans [http://www.netbeans.org/features/php/]
• cachegrind [http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html]

Presenter: Sam Keen @samkeen

KohanaPHP is a lightweight PHP framework that allows developers to quickly build and deploy websites. We will cover the setup of the framework, development of your application and self-contained modules, and tips for creating websites in under 21 days.

Will be presented by Ryan Snyder of Shizzow and GeekSpeak.

Trying a different format this month: Lightning talks.
I saw it work well at the Python meeting this month so I thought we would give it a try.

We will have 2 to 4 10-20 minute slots. The format is informal, It is completely acceptable to take a slot and discuss 'this cool PHP thing you found'

So far we have:

• 1: Lise to talk about their experience with the ZCE Test. Why you should take it, where you take it, how to pass.
• 2: SamKeen to intro Doctrine: PHP Object Relational Mapper
• 3: Cularis, Inc. will talk about their new project: shopIgniter
• 4: Russell Spivey: Document-Oriented Databases featuring Apache CouchDB

We will have 2 to 4 10-20 minute slots. The format is informal, It is completely acceptable to take a slot and discuss ‘this cool PHP thing you found’

I can start it off with

Topics

15 minutes to a leaner LAMP. Buy the “LAMP Blaster” now! This will be a quick discussion of how in a short amount of time you can reduce the resource needs of your LAMP stack. (@samkeen)

The PDXPHP user groups meets every 3rd Tuesday.

This Meeting topic is still to be determined. Typically this posting will be updated with the meeting details a few weeks before the meeting

Our Mission: The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we believe we can foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.

The PDXPHP user groups meets every 3rd Tuesday.

This Meeting topic is still to be determined. Typically this posting will be updated with the meeting details a few weeks before the meeting

Our Mission: The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we believe we can foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.

The PDXPHP user groups meets every 3rd Tuesday.

This Meeting topic is still to be determined. Typically this posting will be updated with the meeting details a few weeks before the meeting

Our Mission: The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we believe we can foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.

This will be a (open to the public) BoF session at Open Source Bridge.

I'm Very pleased to announce that Haiping, Senior Server Engineer at facebook and main engineer behind HipHop for PHP will be meeting with the PDXPHP group on June 3rd.  HipHop is one of the major developments in the PHP-verse as of late and it's announcement certainly generated quite a bit of hubbub.  Be sure to come down to learn all about HipHop and related work, plus what it's like being an engineer at Facebook.

HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP's runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations.

The PDXPHP user group meets every 3rd Tuesday.

We will have 2 to 4 10-20 minute slots. The format is informal, It is completely acceptable to take a slot and discuss ‘this cool PHP thing you found’

Simply add comments back at pdxphp.org if you would like to present at this Meeting

• my adventures with kohana3 thus far (sam keen)

Taking this month off from code so no meeting this month, 3rd annual Summer coder's Social instead