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Memphis PHP #3 – Presentation Slides and Example Code Included

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We had a great time last night at Memphis PHP.  The turnout was great, it was fun meeting new folks and seeing old friends, and the conversations before and after the meeting were worth the drive to East Memphis.

I had a blast presenting “A Brief Introduction to Zend_Form.”  I love presenting, especially when the audience gets into the act, asking tons of good questions and laughing at my horrible jokes.  Thanks to all who showed up and for making Memphis PHP and last night’s event such a great success.

Slides and Example Code

As promised, I’ve posted “A Brief Introduction to Zend_Form” at SlideShare.  Included below are links to the example code on pastebin.

The best way to run the MVC example is to whip up a Zend Framework project and drop Example.php into /application/forms.  If you’re unfamiliar with how to get a Zend Framework project up and running, please see “From Zero to Zend Framework Project in 10 Minutes.”

Thanks to our Sponsors

Many thanks to Dave Barger of LunaWeb for kindly allowing us to use the LunaWeb offices for our meeting place, providing food, soda, and even beer.  Yup.  Free beer.  Not bad for our third event, eh?

Dave shared some information last night about his company, LunaWeb, some upcoming events, and some of their current and upcoming projects.  Here’s a list of the links that he referred to.

For your radars:

Big thanks to G2 Technology for helping us spread the word about Memphis PHP.  They work hard every month to promote our events, and I’m grateful to them for all they do.

Join Us

If you’re local to the Memphis area, visiting Memphis, or close enough to drive in, and you’re not a member of Memphis PHP, we’d love to have you join us.  Head over to MemphisPHP.org and join the group.  You’ll get announcements from the group, info about meetings, and be able to RSVP for events.  I look forward to meeting you at our next event.

Announcing Memphis PHP

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It’s my pleasure to announce the formation of Memphis PHP, a PHP user group serving Memphis, TN and the mid-south.  The goal of Memphis PHP is to grow and nurture an active PHP community in the local area.  It’s going to take a lot of work to get Memphis PHP off the ground, but having an active community of PHP developers in Memphis is long overdue.  The hard work will be more than worth it, and I’m going to need your help to accomplish that goal.

My first exposure to the PHP community at large came when I attended ZendCon in 2008.  After getting a taste of what the PHP community had to offer, I was pretty bummed out that we didn’t have anything going in Memphis.  Attending ZendCon in ’08 led to attending ZendCon in ’09, Nashville’s excellent Big LAMP Camp event last November, and I just returned from the tek-X conference in Chicago.

One of my favorite sessions at this year’s tek-X was the Community Roundtable, “an all-star lineup of community members” discussing user groups: what they are, how to start them, and how to keep them going.  It was the Community Roundtable that finally convinced me enough was enough, that it was time to start a user group right here in Memphis, TN.

The Details

  • Memphis PHP will meet on the 4th Thursday of every month at 6:30pm (currently searching for a suitable location).
  • Memphis PHP uses Meetup.com for membership, event and meeting announcements, RSVPs, etc.
  • Our first event will be a road trip to Nashville on June 8th to visit the Nashville PHP user group.
  • Our first official meeting will be on June 24th, location and speaker/agenda TBA.
  • Follow @MemphisPHP on Twitter for community updates and the like.
    • If you’re on Twitter and would like to be added to the memphisPHP-devs list, let me know.
    • Our official hashtag is #memphisPHP.
  • Our general discussion group and mailing list is hosted at Google Groups
  • Employers and recruiters are more than welcome to post opportunities to our discussion list. Please read the guidelines for Posting Employment Opportunities first.

Welcome to Memphis PHP!  I hope you’ll join me in making Memphis PHP a huge success.

Big Thanks

Special thanks go out to the Community Roundtable panel (@DragonBe, @LornaJane, @rdohms, @ramsey, @CaseySoftware) at tek-X for direction and tips, Ben Ramsey of Nashville PHP for his guidance and support, and Chance Garcia for beating me to the punch.

I’d also like to thank Wes Hicks and the team at G2 Technology for offering to help spread the word about Memphis PHP and help find a meeting place.