11 December 2004 - WWW and PHP

Topics

WWW and PHP (by Daniel C. Bastos)

Attendance

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Presentation Resources

Meeting Announcement (txt)

Flyer (html)

"WWW" presentation (TEX) (DVI) (PDF) by Daniel C. Bastos

Meeting Notes

Daniel gave a great presentation. He used FreeBSD, by the way, not Linux. The tools he used (Apache Web Server, PHP and the Opera browser) are all cross-platform software, so his presentation applies on *BSD, Linux, UNIX, and Microsoft operating systems. He had a handout (see links above), which always helps for following along.

Perhaps the announced title of the presentation was a bit misleading. The presentation was more specifically about how the World Wide Web (WWW) works, with HTTP headers and passing of data between a browser and a server. PHP comes into play as a means of demonstrating these concepts. It came in again later in the presentation when Daniel presented his "Node Methodology" of PHP development.

While the presentation started off simply enough, the "Node Methodology" went into the stratosphere. It was really at that point not so much about the capabilities of PHP or any language as much as it was about a particular way of organizing web code to provide for code/design separation while preserving maintainability. I thought it was very clever, but it probably went way beyond what anyone was expecting.

I hope Daniel will be able to give more presentations in the future.