http://www.meetup.com/Northwest-Ohio-PHP-User-Group

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG5OaldSRGdneU9OWnFNdGR0ckRmZUE6MQ

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!

When and Where

• Room E292, Northwest State Community College, 22600 Ohio 34, Archbold OH
• April 17, 2012 at 5:30pm

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 Anyone doing Facebook development will find this a great resource compared to searching through outdated material on the internet since Facebook changes their API very quickly.

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:

• http://www.phparch.com/phparchitect-live-presents-the-virtual-git-summit/
• http://www.grumpy-testing.com/

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!

When and Where

• Room E292, Northwest State Community College, 22600 Ohio 34, Archbold OH
• January 17, 2012 at 5:30pm

You can RSVP over on our Facebook Event, and while you’re there you can also Like our FB page!

When and Where

• Facebook Event
• Room E292, Northwest State Community College, 22600 Ohio 34, Archbold OH
• November 15, 2011 at 5:30pm

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.

When and Where

• Room E292, Northwest State Community College, 22600 Ohio 34, Archbold OH
• September 20, 2011 at 7pm

Building Drupal Modules

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!

Filtering Data in PHP

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.

When and Where

• Northwest State Community College, 22600 Ohio 34, Archbold OH
• August 16, 2011 at 7pm

Extending Joomla! User Profiles

NWO-PUG member Bud Manz will go over extending the Joomla! user profile for added flexibility.

PHP Templating Systems

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.

When and Where

• Northwest State Community College, 22600 Ohio 34, Archbold OH
• July 26, 2011 at 7pm

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?

Extending Joomla! User Profiles

NWO-PUG member Bud Manz will go over extending the Joomla! user profile for added flexibility.

PHP Templating Systems

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.

When and Where

• N-160 State Route 18, Napoleon OH
• June 21, 2011 at 7pm