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This month we’ll be going over Drupal, as presented by Dave Marihugh, one of our newest members.
Like always, we’ll be meeting in room E292 at Northwest State Community College, and starting around 5:30 PM.
Hope to see you there!
Recently I just finished reading Facebook Application Development with Graph API Cookbook, by Shashwat Srivastava and Apeksha Singh. As it’s name implies it’s main focus is building applications that interact with Facebook, specifically with using the new Graph API. It’s tagline is “Quick answers to common problems” and it does just that.
The first few chapters deal with creating a new Facebook application, explaining what the Social Graph is, and some basic overviews on how to get data from Facebook. From there it starts to delve into the Javascript SDK and gives recipes that build on each other. For example, in Chapter 4 you learn how to log a user in, the make Graph API calls, and then get into permissions.
Chapters 7, 8, and 9 deal with more advanced topics like page administration, virtual currency, and ads. Chapter 10 gives some full applications so you can see how things interact on a larger scale. The final chapter even goes over some of the newer aspects of Facebook development like the Open Graph Beta and working with the user’s timeline.
This book is very consistent in it’s layout. You get an overview of the recipe, the code to do it, and then an explanation of how it works. The authors do a good job of showing any gotchas, like the difference between when you should use the Facebook Canvas URL and your site’s URL, so that readers can avoid some easy to make mistakes.
Overall this is a very current and well laid out book. Anyone doing Facebook development will find this a great resource compared to searching through outdated material on the internet since Facebook changes their API very quickly.
We’re going to go over PHP 5.3 certification and, if Roger has time, some MySQL certification information.
As an added bonus, if you make it to the meeting we’ll be giving away a ticket to php|architect’s Virtual git Summit (February 1st) as well as a coupon for a free edition of the new eBook “The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide to Building Testable Applications in PHP.”
You can find out more information about our giveaways here:
Like always, we’ll be meeting in room E292 at Northwest State Community College, and starting around 5:30 PM.
Hope to see you there!
This month we have a few changes. We’ll be doing one presentation with a Q&A session afterwards, as well as moving the meeting time up to 5:30pm. We will still meet at Northwest State Community College in room E292 though, so you know where to find us!
You can RSVP over on our Facebook Event, and while you’re there you can also Like our FB page!
The votes are in! This month we’ll be going over PHP security and building rich client interfaces!
PHP Security
PHP is a great language for getting your project up and running quickly, but sometimes security takes a back seat in the interest of getting things done. We’ll go over some PHP security essentials that you should always take into account to protect you, your clients, and your servers.
Building Rich Client Interfaces
Websites have moved from static brochure sites to interactive, real-time applications. Twitter, Facebook, and many others provide an interface that works very much like a real application. We’ll use Javascript and PHP to build a rich client interface that will make your site much more dynamic.
Come and join the Northwest Ohio PHP User Group on August 16, 2011 at 7pm at the Northwest State in Archbold Ohio, room E292. What are we going to go over this month?
Drupal is a great content management system, but building modules can be a bit tricky. We’ll go over what makes up a module and build a sample one!
Most frameworks have a system for filtering data, but did you know that PHP has its own built-in filtering system? As of PHP 5.2 the Filter extension has been part of the core install, and we’ll go over using it.
Come and join the Northwest Ohio PHP User Group on July 26, 2011 at 7pm at the Northwest State in Archbold Ohio, room E292. What are we going to go over this month?
NWO-PUG member Bud Manz will go over extending the Joomla! user profile for added flexibility.
PHP is a templating system, but what happens when you have to work with people that don’t know PHP, or you want to separate out PHP logic from presentation? Chris Tankersley will go over different template systems that are available, but from a framework perspective as well as stand alone.
Meeting has been cancelled.
Come and join the Northwest Ohio PHP User Group on June 21, 2011 at 7pm at the Filling Home in Napoleon, OH. What are we going to go over this month?
NWO-PUG member Bud Manz will go over extending the Joomla! user profile for added flexibility.
PHP is a templating system, but what happens when you have to work with people that don’t know PHP, or you want to separate out PHP logic from presentation? Chris Tankersley will go over different template systems that are available, but from a framework perspective as well as stand alone.