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Community News: php|tek 2008 Coverage

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:45:41 -0500

Rather than having a lots of different blog posts scattered all over covering this year's php|tek conference in Chicago, I figured that pulling them all together here would work best. So, without further ado - the coverage from php|tek 2008:

the php|tek live site
slides (as they get them
Photos on Flickr tagged with "tek08"

Ivo Jansch: Day -1, Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 (and wrapup)
Eli White: Heading to php|tek
Greg Beaver: phar is near at php|tek
Ivo Jansch's coverage of the Zend/Microsoft issue during Joe Stagner's keynote
Brian DeShong's slides - The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development and Robust Batch Processing with PHP
Maggie Nelson slides - Keeping You DB and PHP in Sync, Angering the Database Gods
Sebastian Bergmann's slides - Type-Safe Objects in PHP, Understanding the PHP Object Model, Quality Assurance in PHP Projects
a wrapup of the conference from Ben Ramsey
Matthew Turland's look back at the conferece
Gennady Feldman's wrapup
Maggie Nelson's slides for Angering the Database Gods
a heads-up from Marco Tabini to look in the near future for some incriminating video of some php|architect staff in KISS outfits
Jeff Moore's wrapup of this year's conference and links to his slides - Exceptional PHP and Coding for Success: Writing Software You'll Be Able To Understand Next Month
Another recap by Andrew Culver
slides from Greg Beaver - PEAR, Phar and Smart PHP
slides from Ed Finkler's talks - Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIR, Securing the PHP Environment with PHPSecinfo
an overview from Christopher Jones

Check out more live from the conference on the php|tek Live page on the php|architect website.

Antony Dovgal's Blog: PHP test coverage exceeded 55%

Wed, 21 May 2008 08:47:44 -0500

As Antony Dovgal points out in a new blog post today, the latest reports on PHP's code coverage have jumped up over the 50% mark (to 56.3% at the time of this post).

It took us about 2 years to get the last 5% and I believe most of the kudos should go to IBM people, who continue to contribute lots of new tests. I hope that the Testfest will help us to speed up this process.

There are still a lot of items in the red that could use some tests, so if you're looking to help out write up some tests or check your area for a TestFest event to get some help.

Stoyan Stefanov's Blog: www vs no-www and cookies

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:18:39 -0500

Stoyan Stefanov has come up against one of the frustrations of web development involving cookies - problems caused by the switch from a "www." in the host to none. He's come up with a test to show you how cookies are set and where you can access them from.

One of the implications of following the rule is related to the whole www vs no-www question. Basically you should always use www if you're planning to use any other sub-domains and you want them cookie-free. This is because you have no way to set a cookie only to the top-level domain.

His code sets cookies for the ".phpied.com", "phpied.com" and "www.phpied.com" domains. Since the domains without the "www" offer a bit broader range of possible matches, he recommends that if you're ever going to use any kind of subdomain, you'll want to use the more broad cookie to cover it.

Debuggable Blog: Code Coverage Analysis soon in CakePHP - Test How Well You Test

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:19:54 -0500

In a new post to the Debuggable blog, Tim Koschutzki talks some about the work he's been doing on the code coverage analysis for the upcoming CakePHP release:

There are several different kinds of criteria to code coverage. The two most important ones are line coverage (or statement coverage as wikipedia puts it) and path coverage. [...] So how is it going to work? Pretty simple actually. Whenever you run a CakePHP test case Cake assembles information in the background about which lines of your subject-under-test are called.

He includes a few screenshots of the code coverage being run and the end result of the runner with the percent covered.