Talks for webdevelopers, especially those working for or with the BBC on new projects which are to make use of their new technology platform (The Forge). Topics include PHP, distributed databases and modern Web/2.0 technology.Most are generaly at an introductionary level and assume basic internet knowledge and a fair understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript and coding in general.
Mark Stickley takes us through some basic form validation. Topics include....Collecting data from formsValidation with ZendSanitisation and security
Richard Hodgson takes us through PHP Classes and objects with some simple examples. Topics include....creating classesinstantiating objectsmethods and parameterspublic and privategetters and setterssome examples
This week, we take a look at php includes, Installing and including the Zend Framework, using Zend_Http_Client for first time, reading and RSS and Last.fm feed, and interacting with the Flickr API.
In this talk Jan Lenhardt introduces Apache CouchDB. CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.The slides can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/bbcwebdev/introduc...
Variables, Conditionals, Loops and Arrays - the second part of our intrduction to PHP for the BBC's Client Side Developers
Hello World! with PHP on Apache or with XAMPP. We give a short history of PHP, install it alongside Apache on Windows, do a phpinfo() and then a hello world with timestamp. This gets us setup for the rest of the sessions to follow
