In Search of... Integrating Local Search
Spreker: Ian BarberVisit Blog
Despite being a key method of navigation on many sites, search functionality often gets the short end of the stick in development, either by handing the job over to Google or just enabling full text search on the appropriate column in the database. In this talk we will look at how full text search actually works, how to integrate local text search engines into your PHP application, and how it's possible to actually provide better and more relevant results than Google itself, at least for your own site.
Scalability out of the box with Hierarchy and MVC - or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Request object
Spreker: Sam de FreyssinetVisit Blog
The ambition of web applications has only been impeded by the economies of scaling. The Hierarchical-MVC pattern enables ambitious applications to be designed without worrying about the dreaded 'S' word.||This talk will provide an overview of how to build applications that scale vertically and horizontally effortlessly when using the HMVC pattern. We will examine how the request object can provide a cost effective way to create an application of services. Then we will see how interrogation of the request object can reduce the size of the codebase across the entire application.
Database version control without pain
Spreker: Harrie VerveerVisit Blog
We've all read the textbooks and are using version control systems for our code, but our databases are left out in the cold. Every team has their own workaround, ranging from patch files to SQL snippets in the bugtracker, but none is really robust. Unfortunately there is no silver bullet, but there are several tools and best practices that can help you to make your life easier.
This talk shows several approaches that can help you to overcome this problem and to control database structure changes in a more sophisticated way.
Profile your PHP application and make it scale
Spreker: Lorenzo AlbertonVisit Blog
Making an application scale and go faster is often seen as a wizardly task. We read the micro-optimisation tricks posted in tech blogs and apply them with unconditional trust and great hope, and then wonder why performances haven't improved that much (Wait, I even replaced 'print' with 'echo'!!!").
In this talk we'll see how we can take easy, practical steps we can apply over and over that really make a difference, by analysing what our application does under the hood, measuring how and where the different resources are used, eliminating the real bottlenecks and restructuring critical components to handle growing loads.