A brief intro from me this week as we're away seeing clients. Hope you enjoy the links from this week and if there's anything you need let me know. We're looking to change some of the sections that we have and are hoping to do that by next week



All the best



Katie

News and Announcements



CakeFest 2013: San Francisco, USA.

The CakePHP Conference 2013 will take place over the weekend of August 29th - September 1st, with two days of workshops followed by the conference. Limited number of tickets left, so book fast. The call for speakers is currently open! Don't miss your chance to speak at the one and only CakePHP conference.



Day Camp 4 Developers Virtual Conference 26th July 2013

Day Camp 4 Developers 6: Non-Programming for Programmers covers 4 topics that programmers ignore, don’t bother to learn, or like to pretend aren’t important…even though they are. Join us for a morning of learning as our 4 speakers talk to you about: Documentation, Agile development, Source code management and Estimating.



Web & PHP Conference Sep 16-18th 2013 San Jose, California

The people behind Web & PHP Magazine, the free monthly digital publication, invite you to our first ever conference. This three-day event in September is designed to immerse you in a world of continuously changing and evolving web technologies. Sticking with our ethos of open knowledge sharing, we have made all conference sessions, keynote presentations, hacks and Expo on September 17 & 18 FREE to attend!

Reading and Viewing

Introducing PhpStorm Video Tutorials

A lot of PhpStorm users have been asking us to create a series of video tutorials. Today, we’re happy to announce the availability of about two hours of video tutorials around PhpStorm which Maarten has been working on for the past few weeks.



The Joy of PHP: Deep Dive into Sessions (by Alan Forbes, published 23rd June 2013)

This is a short, focused book. It covers one (rich) topic related to PHP and that is the concept of Session Variables, also known as 'Sessions'. We explain how to create a database table of usernames and passwords, how to encrypt the passwords using the md5() function, and how to create and process a login form. Once the user is logged in we can assign them session variables, such as Role, which will dictate which features of the web application will be visible and which will be hidden. Every line of code is explained in clear, easy-to-understand plain English.



