Michelangelo Van Dam (Oct 10, 2009)
Talk at PHP North West 2009 (English - UK)
The Standard PHP Library is unappreciated and still not commonly used by developers, mainly because of the lack of documentation and example codes.
This presentation is going to show how SPL is used, with simple and complex examples.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/613
Slides: SPL, not a bridge too far
Oct 10, 2009, 21:28 by Kewley
Interesting to hear about a part of PHP I'd never come across. I liked the mix of explanations and examples to make things clear. Some of the code examples where hard to follow on the presentation screen but the explanations cleared things up.
Oct 11, 2009, 12:03 by matason
Good presentation, I enjoyed the honesty of the speaker when he covered sections that he didn't know about. There were good examples to help explain the concepts. Thanks Michelangelo!
Oct 11, 2009, 17:42 by Anonymous
Speaker seemed nervous, content was OK. I'm still not convinced about SPL, perhaps it's because SPL isn't -all that- or maybe the speaker didn't sell the benefits adequetly, or maybe I'm just an idiot :)
Oct 11, 2009, 19:59 by philipnorton42
The slides contains very good content, and I'll be looking at them later on slide share. I am definitely going to look into using the SPL classes more in the future.
Oct 11, 2009, 20:02 by bwaine
This talk was excellent. I think the content (particularly ArrayObject and the CSV examples) will be something I can use in projects straight away.
Thanks!
Oct 11, 2009, 20:24 by Anonymous
yeah the datastructures section of SPL is greek to me to:
" The SplQueue class provides the main functionalities of a queue implemented using a doubly linked list. "
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.splqueue.php
ok cool and what the hell does that mean?
A nice overview of some of the real world useful features of SPL though was really welcome
Oct 12, 2009, 18:11 by Bittarman
Great overview of the SPL.
Adding in some examples of where we might have encountered implementations of the SPL in common libraries / frameworks might have helped people identify with the features a little more.
Overall a very good talk!
Oct 13, 2009, 08:23 by Anonymous
Poor.
While I'm grateful for being introduced to the SPL, I can't say I learned a great deal about it.
Oct 10, 2009, 11:09 by natts
Pretty straightforward run through of basic SPL features.
Questions at the start about the experience/knowledge of the audience were the wrong way 'round though? On the slides they were "do you know xxx?" where Michaelangelo asked the audience "who doesn't know xxx?". Too confusing for a Saturday morning! :-)