Meetings

Developing Scalable Web Applications
with PHP5 and Symfony

Jeff Jirsa

Tuesday March 27th 2007 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

If you develop PHP web applications from scratch, you know that as applications gets larger, they get harder to manage, with or without objects. Symfony is a web application framework that uses the MVC design pattern to split data (model), view (presentation), and controller (logic) into manageable pieces. Jeff will discuss and demonstrate the features that get used day to day, and give some tips to get you up and running.

Bio

Jeff has been developing web applications using Symfony for the last year. He developed an object oriented framework using PHP 5 in the beginning of his current project, before giving up reinventing the wheel (again) and switching to Symfony. Besides PHP, he has programmed in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, and other languages he doesn't want to talk about.

Getting to the meeting

The next General meeting of UniForum Chicago will be: 

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489
Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in sou th Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on B utterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

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