Question for you PHP guys/gals
 

Actually moving and getting out of the house aside, if you had a chance to go to a php seminar what topics would you like it to cover?

do some cool stuff... client/server sockets, com objects, stuff of that nature. That'd i'd go to ;-)

Boobie arrays!

man that would bore the shit out of me I'd rather sit home and read php.net manual wtf is wrong with you

Or the ever ellusive 4D array. :pimp

php and Ajax, MVC and OOP. That'd be cool.

I'm not a seminar type of guy myself but: Considering the most of the php stuff I've seen around has some serious security holes, "Making your scripts safe&secure" would be a nice topic :2 cents:

I hope that helps :)

in addition to what was said above;

would anyone like to hear anything about scaling and optimization? (make your site faster)

would anyone like to hear on migrating from php4 to php5?

Any other ideas? Just trying to get as many as i can or for people to say the same thing.

I'd say scaling applications...and good project planning; things change so fast in development - especially where I am...so it would be good to have some time spent on that

I'd like to hear about the advantages of using oop - mainly concerned with speed and developement time.

why go oop ? what advantages will I have in the future ?

If you convince me its worth it, I'd like to hear about swithing over a large site to oop - best ways to do it and pitfalls to avoid.


-- symbiont

seriously...I would rather have more wisdoms pulled than sit through a PHP seminar

ahh, it's not that bad, espcially if you can get your questions answered

no programmers here?

The scaling process would be great. Especially with integration to Database servers.

- Licensing your php apps
- Benefits of migrating to Zend Platform

-scaling/optimization
-security
-when and when not to use oop....pros/cons
-different database options... when to use what


i can't thinkof anything that hasn't been said.

There are already a ton of seminars on most of that stuff, and or web documentation so another seminar might be old hat.

If you were to do something it should probably be more along OOP and MVC, but generic php stuff would bore the hell out of me, and even though I know about OOP and MVC it might interest me to sit through refreshers. Scalability, portability and reliability might be an interesting topic as well. I have seen many adult companies not position themselves for catastrophic failure, or growth and it hurts them everytime. For a mission critical business a backup of your mysql database just isnt sufficient. You need raids, and you need clustered mysql boxes and webservers.

That info could save webmasters thousands if the seminar is geared towards both small and large adult companies.

I have been through most of this stuff, but it would be good for most people to sit through, even program owners just to get an understanding of what is involved with growth. Educating programmers is one thing, but the key lies with educating the program owners and site owners, because most are clueless when it comes to programming. They tell their programmer to do it, and don't think about the consequences of having an inexperienced programmer.

Andy

Optimzation

Databases and php.

Guide to arrays.(something I've always had problems with)

Security

I got a million of them, but those are some of the first that come to mind